Supreme Court: Schools can't use race to assign students



I was trying to figure out the role reversal here. Generally its the liberals fighting for minority rights and equalities and the conservatives opposing these things.

Here we have conservatives ruling that race should never be a factor in enrollment which I totally agree with.

Then I see why Liberals are fighting for race to be a factor. Their intentions are good but I still don't believe the principle of taking into consideration someone's race or color should ever be a factor in anything. If they want to diversify then they should find another method.

The school district we used to live in rezoned their schools. They used race the the only factor. The school district at the time was 45% black so when they rezoned they said that all schools in the district had to be within 10% of that...so all schools had to be 35%-55% black. Some parents were very angry because their kids had to go to a school that was 2 miles away instead of 2 blocks away.

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Supreme Court: Schools can't use race to assign students



Why does campus diversity hate America?

This decision makes my stomach turn. How can something as positive as diversity be struck down by the Supreme Court?

Worst day in America.

This deserves breaking news attention.

Same thing happened in my old state. They changed....and the parents complained about it because of the 11 mile difference in a couple of high schools, but all they put on the table for consideration was ONE REQUEST...

that the SENIORS for the coming year be excluded so they could GRADUATE where they had gone to high school since the 9th grade. It was turned down and you talk about uproar? It was bad.

And parents began assigning guardianship to friends and family that would turn the tables and allow their seniors to continue in their high school...and the state came after them, virtually watching them to see if the kids were actually STAYING at the new residence.

I am telling you...it was some screwed up stuff.

It was ALMOST unimaginable.

Almost.

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The nation is in an uproar while you're here whistling about how parents hate it. Yeah, completely believable ...

I'm sorry but I'm with the conservatives on this one. You see from other testimonials in this thread what this race based enrollment was doing. You are advocating its ok for someone you tell you that because you are black you must go here or because you are white you must go there. That is inherintly wrong. I don't oppose diversity but forcing it and inconveniencing the hell out of people is morally wrong.

Brown V Board Of Ed was fairly easy to kill due to the pervasive racism which exixts here in the land of the weak and beaten-down.

But lets see how they do when the fascist five go up against the New Deal.

Time travel ain't what it's cracked-up to be, Neo Cons.

The article gets it wrong again - unsurprising for a paper out of San Francisco.

The Supreme Court didn't deal a blow to school integration efforts. The Constitution did that, when the 14th amendment made it illegal to discriminate based on race or color. The Supremes merely pointed it out, as is their legitimate job.

What's the problem? You don't like it when you're not allowed to use race or color as a factor, one way or another? Then amend the Constitution. Right now it says you're SOL, and that's not the Supreme Court's fault.

The article author sounds similar to a bank robber who says cops are depriving him of his "right" to take money out of the vault by force. They're not doing it, the law is doing it. They are merely upholding the law, as is their job. And the Supremes are upholding the law too, just as they should.

It's up to us (actually 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states) to change it if we don't like it. But why are you complaining about the Supreme Court? They've done exactly what they should (for a change): uphold the law as we, the people, wrote it. I wouldn't have them do anything else.

Don't like it? Get your amendment going. And if 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states don't agree with you, I guess you're out of luck. That's the Constitutional republic we live in. And just maybe, 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states are wiser than you are in this matter. That's why the Constitution specifies those numbers to amend it - the Framers figured that such a large, diverse group would come to the right decision more often than a few misguided hotheads would. Maybe you'd like to pick another form of govt - there are plenty around the world to choose from. Let me know what you find.

But until then, why criticize the Supreme Court for doing their job correctly?

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The Constitution isn't perfect, but it's better than the system we're using now.

Except, of course, when you see a "neighborhood" school and see what resegregation is doing to those communities.

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Diversity policies are nearly ALL total crap...affirmative action at the top of the dung pile.

I believe in equal treatment under the law - period. Everything else is unconstitutional and reverse racism.

Kudos to the court, IMO.

I'm all for diversity, but at the end of day, no one should every be told: "You can't go to school here because your skin is the wrong color."

Its not a matter of hate it’s a matter of fairness and frankly, the desegregation of schools has allowed more of them to slip into mediocrity than before....the problem here is the education system period...it should not matter where a student goes to school, they should al get the same level of opportunity to learn than the other..........but the unions and administrators of the public school system will not allow it.........they say they cannot draw good teachers to inner city schools...okay why? That’s a debate in and of itself but lets say that the commitment of the parents, the ability to discipline agitators who stop others from learning, paying talented teachers more to teach in more challenging atmospheres etc. and the built in malaise in these communities is more to blame than who they sit next too.

Some of it makes me laugh...Michigan U. claimed they needed to create a quota system to get more Black and Hispanic students enrolled to create an atmosphere of diversity amongst the student populace, because a diverse student body benefits all.........okay, then why do they set up separate orientations, separate dorms, separate study groups and separate graduations based along racial lines.....? It does not add up....

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A level opportunity in a fundamentally biased system- both along racial and economic lines.

That's a real trick.

you should go to school , to the school....that is closest too you

period