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On Monday, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Constitution allows for schools to use race as a determining factor in their admissions processes.
One of the cases before the court deals with Seattle's attempts to have the racial make-up of their public schools mirror that of the city as a whole (40% white, 60% racial minority). When a particular school has too many applicants, race is used as a tie-breaker, with preference given to students from under-represented races.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, two conservatives recently appointed to the Supreme Court, were both against quotas, affirmative action, and other programs designed to benefit minorities when working as lawyers in the Regan administration -- opinions which may possibly turn the tide in what has, up until now, remained an unresolved issue.
Opponents of the system utilized by school systems like Seattle say it's discriminatory, while advocates feel we must actively preserve desegregated education.
Is it fair to let race play a factor in a school's admissions decisions? Even if you don't think so, isn't it important that students of all races are educated together?
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12-04-2006 @ 12:59AM
Jeanie said...In response to your questions, Jonathon, absolutely not! I prefer public schools as segregated as possible. This (according to governmental studies) results in the least overall school violence, and the most "learning" (defined by test scores, etc., which may or may not be accurate.
In any case, affirmative action-type incentives have no place in a meritocracy. And capitalist America IS still a meritocracy. At least it certainly is in most every aspect of American culture -- except public schools.
Schools -- public or private -- should, for their own good, except the highest-caliber students they can. And I don't necessiraily presume "high-caliber" is synonymous with "high grades." I advocate DIVERSITY regarding talent and specialization: art, writing, math, spelling, music, acting, sculpting, wrestling, advocating, etc. Diversity among race, forced and unnatural, results in bland schools which turn out robotic, ill-informed, low-achieving students.
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12-04-2006 @ 12:59AM
Jeanie said...'Accept' - not - 'except' in that last paragraph - Sorry.=)
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12-04-2006 @ 6:15AM
Angelica said...The problem with your approach Jeanie is that schools themselves are not of high-caliber...and no matter of segregating will draw away from the fact that it is within the structure of our school system that students will do well, along with the drive of the students to succeed.
All of this naturally begins in the home.
Perhaps if the U.S. took a cue from other countries and tweaked the school system here, we would not have to be talking about meeting racial quotas. Because that is all this article really is about.
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