The U.S. Supreme Court ruled out extra points for students of a given race when applying for college. But the court stressed that an applicant must be otherwise fully qualified for admission.
In effect, this bans extra credit based simply on color.
The practice may have been useful to end a perceived racial prejudice in the nation's top schools, and the issue became whether that procedure is still needed.
In effect, the Supreme Court said no.
Meanwhile, a color imbalance remains in many of the nation's local school districts, both primary and secondary. This reflects the populations of cities and towns throughout America.
Some would say the solution would be to force integration of cities and towns. Already, busing of kindergarten and elementary school students has been done for several decades as a way to integrate local schools.
But many families left towns and cities, or transferred their students to private schools, using the excuse that they wanted a better education for their children.
Do they get it? Sometimes. But local students are left behind to attend the traditional local schools, which again reflect the population of their districts.
One solution would be to enlarge the school districts and bus the students even farther from home so they would attend integrated schools. But how large can a district be, for kindergarten students to ride their buses several miles every day, just so the municipality can abide by some legal requirement that schools have a mixed population of students?
All of which raises another question:
"Can't we all get along?" -- Rodney King
In effect, this bans extra credit based simply on color.
The practice may have been useful to end a perceived racial prejudice in the nation's top schools, and the issue became whether that procedure is still needed.
In effect, the Supreme Court said no.
Meanwhile, a color imbalance remains in many of the nation's local school districts, both primary and secondary. This reflects the populations of cities and towns throughout America.
Some would say the solution would be to force integration of cities and towns. Already, busing of kindergarten and elementary school students has been done for several decades as a way to integrate local schools.
But many families left towns and cities, or transferred their students to private schools, using the excuse that they wanted a better education for their children.
Do they get it? Sometimes. But local students are left behind to attend the traditional local schools, which again reflect the population of their districts.
One solution would be to enlarge the school districts and bus the students even farther from home so they would attend integrated schools. But how large can a district be, for kindergarten students to ride their buses several miles every day, just so the municipality can abide by some legal requirement that schools have a mixed population of students?
All of which raises another question:
"Can't we all get along?" -- Rodney King
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