Comments on: More students refuse to state a race

By: bandit

bandit — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:51:26 +0000

Absolutely good on them. It must kill the race obsessed bureaucrats that kids are too smart to fall for their BS.

By: Lyndap

Lyndap — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:32:41 +0000

I’ve been assured that if the surveys/forms where they ask for race aren’t checked off…the school officials will do it for you…it’s all about the money!

By: Jim Miller

Jim Miller — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:34:22 +0000

Some years ago, the Los Angeles school district was trying to get teachers properly distributed by race. This often meant moving teachers away from schools where they had taught for years, and sometimes forced teachers to make long commutes.

Naturally, some teachers — both black and white — figured out that they could stay where they were if they checked a different box on the form than the box they usually checked.

Almost equally naturally, the school district, after learning about this, responded by setting up some kind of board to check on racial classifications.

(I don’t recall how this ended, as it been some years since I read about this, probably in Commentary.)

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By: Bill Leonard

Bill Leonard — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:50:15 +0000

Hooray for the students. Any move is a good move if it helps stymie the ubiquitous bureaucrat who has a solution looking for a problem.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:09:46 +0000

It’s called assimilation. Given the presidential election of 2008, I think the citizens are ahead of the bureaucrats.

Family income’s much easier to determine than “race.” Use that.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:27:45 +0000

Good for the students.
Richard. South Africa used to have separate race courts devoted to balancing your geneaology to see you were in the the proper group in order to receive the proper discrimination.
But some of those guys would be too old to move now.
I understand the new mantra is that race is a social construct. Looks like the kids are deconstructing it and good for them.

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:53:50 +0000

Maybe they can find some former bureaucrats from the Apartheid South African government to identify the racial makeup of the students.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:35:15 +0000

Good for them!!

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