Supreme Court must end divisive practice that is tearing schools apart
Fox News
School boards have replaced merit-based admissions to elite academic high schools with policies intended to achieve racial diversity through racial balancing of the student body.
Mike Clancy is a lawyer, parent of a TJ graduate and former TJ PTSA Board member, education advocate, legal commentator, and member of the Federalist Society. Follow him @MikeClancyVA.
These polices to promote certain races (usually Black and Hispanic) must discriminate against others (usually Asian Americans).
The problem in the minds of these school boards is that the student populations do not align with the local racial demographics and, in their view, too many high-achieving Asian Americans are earning admission. Their solution: contrived admissions policies that at their core discriminate based on race and are antithetical to the constitutional principle of equality.