The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a school district can write admissions rules that shrink one racial group’s share of seats, then escape a lawsuit because that group still comes out ahead. The case is Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education.
I’m a husband, a father of three, a small business owner, and a youth coach of many seasons. I worked full time through college, so I know what a study schedule is worth when every hour is spoken for. Call it reverse discrimination if you like, though Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts settled the vocabulary in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College: “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” When officials engineer outcomes by race, the bill lands on families who did the quiet work, the nightly reading, and the checked homework.
