Monday, July 2nd, 2007 (
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There's a lot of angry news out there saying that the
US Supreme Court's recent ruling against school diversity plans is a major set back to racial equality. The catalyst was a suit brought by parents who's kids had been the subject of discrimination:

One plaintiff in the case was a white woman in Louisville whose son was denied a transfer to attend kindergarten in a school that needed more black pupils to keep its minority population at the district-required minimum of 15 percent.

Excuse me, but isn't still discrimination even if the kid is white?

We only hope those schools will continue to value racial diversity and will make the effort to identify and use other methods to integrate classrooms.

How about accepting whoever lives in the area? If you're in a primarily white town, the students will reflect that. If you're in a highly hispanic or black neighborhoods, you'll probably end up with hispanic and black children. Discriminiation will never end if we have all these laws that focus only on skin color (no matter what the reason).
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