Everyone is familiar with the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education which put an end to racial segregation in schools, leading to a period of civil unrest. The court determined that “separate but equal” was an unacceptable and likely unobtainable standard, and that all students must receive the same opportunities regardless of race. This eventually led to rural arguments over bussing, “white flight” and other social conflicts. But then it all sort of faded away and people went back to sending their children to schools in their community with no applicants being denied a seat based on race. Problem solved, right?
It was for a while, but now things have started to change yet again. As Andrew Kerr explains at the Free Beacon, school boards are embracing a new model of operation where separate but equal is back, except it comes with an asterisk. It’s okay to split up classes based on race, but only if the excluded students are white. Classes composed entirely of one minority or another are fine because these “affinity classes” prevent some minority students from experiencing “anxiety” caused by learning alongside peers of another race. He points to…
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