Better late than never: cut on the bias has a report from April on racial preferences in Seattle schools, specifically mentioning Ballard High School. Apparently the principal resigned in protest after the 9th US Circuit Court ruled Seattle can't use race as a determining factor in assigning pupils to schools. Without knowing the specifics of the case, the court's ruling seems wise to me. If racial equality means anything, it means not allowing the government to make decisions based on race, preferring one to another. This might be allowed in exceptional circumstances to correct gross predjudice, but that hardly applies in Seattle today.
Posted by awm at July 10, 2002 01:50 PM