Monday, July 9, 2007

Court limits use of race in school admissions

Racial discrimination revival?

Supreme Court Justices separated to 5-4, which resulted the school diversity plans to be rejected. This will develop from light racial distinguishments to the admissions of colored students, with the possibility of slowly proceeding to the level of discrimination. This conclusion influenced Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle districts, two of the most segregated school districts in the United States. This case might greatly influence the national school districts regarding the racial matters. The team of justices rejecting this ‘evident equality’ stated having racial ‘separations’ might support each school to have different accomplishments and diversities. The parents of the rejected students sued, where the Bush administration also agreed that there shouldn’t be such racial distinguishing methods in school districts. One of the influenced schools is the well-known Central High School. The neighboring students near Central High School were put into other schools very far from their residences.

I chose this article because it was interesting to see a current incident regarding the famous Central High School. It also reminds me of the case of Brown vs. Board of Education. I strongly disagree with this conclusion, because everyone has same equalities regardless of what their nationality is. This incident certainly inflicts disgrace to the true values and morals that America should sustain.

1 comment:

Mary said...

I think this court topic is also relevant to affirmative action. I don't think that diversity is mandatory in schools. If the government sets mandatory integration laws, students may not want to move to different schools because fights, abuses, and attacks may occur. Integration may also hinder a school's educational system as more money and time would be dedicated to support integration and not the actual education of students.