Quote Originally Posted by TechSupporter11 View Post
It's quite simple really...going all the way back to one of the most historical Supreme Court cases ever in "Brown vs. Board of Education" (1954), where everyone (or should I say almost everyone) knows that the court ruled that the government's segregation of schoolchildren by race violated the Constitution's equal protection law...

But what a lot of people don't realize is that the cases following "Brown" were interpreted by the court requiring only minimum standards in order to comply with the court's original ruling...for the most part, the court wanted to leave it up to the local communities to decide what measures should be taken in order to integrate their schools...and they did, and they have ever since to continue their integration efforts...

In this particular case, Seattle and Louisville were the cities in question, and both communities have made several efforts to modify its integration standards to resist the threat of resegregation

All of this, of course, is now completely ruined...over half a century of cases regarding race in schools are now crap because of these justices...Justice Bryor said it best when he said "never have so few people done so much in so little time"

Sure, in a perfect world it would be great for everyone to be colorblind and not have race be an issue at all when it comes to matters like this, but unfortunately this isn't a perfect world and this court had no right to to make this ruling...if the local community has a problem with its integration standards, then they should change them themselves, not the Supreme Court...

Tisk tisk, all of this over a stupid "tiebreaker" rule for racial classifications
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I don't buy that explanation one bit. I see a vast difference between segregation and what the court just said. Segregation is saying "you can't go to this school because your white" or "you can't go to this school because your black" or "Hispanic/Latino" or "Asian" or whatever- basically that "this school is only for this race, now go away"... Are you saying that we are to change what we have learned and what has been taught about what segregation is/was because somebody's master plan (intentional wording) got thrown off???

How is saying that schools can not use race as a determining factor for anything the same as segregation??? This is giving EQUAL access to everyone, regardless of race... If I'm not mistaken, is that not what Brown v. BE intended and such?




And the another issue - should schools be state or federally controlled? OR privately? (I personally say privately - can be better, because it really can't get any worse)