She is saying that those of us who are not as smart as her don't understand the important elements of this debate because we don’t have PHD’s and that she is hereby erecting a smokescreen (an air of reasonability) behind which she can hide until the furor over her conduct subsides.

Nevertheless, she intends to perpetrate her deliberately divisive tactics no matter how racist or vile they are and no matter what anyone but her and her communist comrades thinks about it . . . so . . . with “Warm regards” Caprice Hollins says . . . kiss off

I second South County's remark. Please stay on this issue (not that I ever doubted you would).
This woman is dangerous and should be working nights stocking groceries somewhere (preferably Belize or Turkistan).

What would the reaction be if, based only on skin color, everyone but whitey had to get a 10%higher LSAT score to get into the UW law school?

We've been there and done that.
That is why our society is so fu@ked up.
Morons like Madelyn Allbright were produced by our so-called intellectual elite schools of liberal nonsense and they are everywhere.

'We need another Jimmy Carter for president'

http://www.dailyevergreen.com/disp_story.php?storyId=18029

We need conservative teachers to step up and start alternative schools that are not beholden to the government, the unions, and the liberal power bloc.
I would actively support such a proposition if someone qualified to begin one were to step up in my community. There are many like me who would do the same.

Once we get started, we need to do whatever is necessary to make laws that allow the public school system to be dismantled. Everyone --rich and poor-- can participate -- the only single requirement is that they be concerned about providing a decent education for their children.

THIS IS A VERY BIG PROBLEM, but it is solvable.
If educated from a socially neutral standpoint, liberals learn to be liberals that would be fine (albeit nearly impossible).
Deliberately indoctrinating children into divisive hateful stupidity is evil promotion of social delinquency.
Caprice Hollins is a ripe carbuncle on the arse end of the leviathan of our social collapse.

Repudiate Caprice Hollins and move to alternative education or ignore her and she will turn into an incurable tumor.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/05/scotus.schools.race/index.html

Maybe that will shake things up over there....

Novel concept! Judging a individual based on the individuals behavior and actions, not on race.

Thanks for the heads up.

How will this be argued? As you probably know, the case will most likely turn on the compelling interest test, and whether the legislation in question was narrowly tailored to meet those compelling interests. If the rule was created to achieve a legitimate and compelling interest that could not be otherwise achieved through another method, and that offsets its collateral effect on the rights of others, it was narrowly tailored and thus meets the criteria of the test. This rule doesn't pass by a long shot.

A “tiebreaker” intended purposely to force white and black students together only in order to cultivate race consciousness -- is not a legitimate compelling governmental interest.
Is the interest a student has to attend a school near his home as opposed to one far away, inferior to the governmental interest proffered by legislation created to purposely force him or her to cultivate race consciousness? The offset is fascist.

We don't need consciousness of differences in our culture but respect for our common good fortunes and encouragement to make it better based on those common interests. This seems like a “no-brainer” to me, but then I don’t have a PHD in bullshit like Caprice Hollins. My education involved learning how to think and use it to make things better. To her the national socialist agenda trumps petty annoyances like fundamental rights and the U.S. constitution.

Thank God this is going to the court.

This case will certainly contain some interesting rulings, and will shape the future of affirmative racism (a.k.a. action).

I didn't know that, but it is good that SCOTUS is ruling anyway.
A good prophylactic to wily liberal communist constructionists.

Thanks

Seattle will certainly do something in the wake of a negative SCOTUS result however. The question is what. They might try to eliminate the school choice within the district altogether, and go to a defined boundary bussing system, which is already constitutional. That would be interesting, because it would create a huge backlash in neigborhoods that are bussed out of the area.

As an outside (the district) observer, I'll have my popcorn ready for this show.

The Seattle School District has proposed to close Graham Hill, and transfer its Montessori program to the African American Academy (94% black). As a practical matter, this would end the Montessori program.

Goldy devoted over a week of ranting and raving on Horse's Ass protesting against this closure. Goldy even had the hypocrisy of accusing the Seattle school district of being racist against minorities for closing Graham Hill.

I learned about the extreme racial imbalance at Graham Hill and its Montessori program from a report the Seattle school district released on Friday. I then posted the extreme racial disparity on Horse's Ass.

Since I posted this information, Goldy hasn't said even a single word more about the Graham Hill closure. Wonder why?

They will continue to make these efforts and it will eventually result in some kind of sea-change in education.

I am hoping that they will poison the system to an extent that it forces schools to become community institutions
like they were in the 60's. They will need to be charter schools and the like and they would be far better than the indoctrination machine of the left.

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Quillayute School District is now offering online classes (first come, first serve). The school is called Insight School, and the website is go2ischool.net. At this time, they are only offering high school classes.

They have recognized that there is a disconnect between families and the public school system, and they are capitalizing on it. I recently attended an informational meeting in Bellingham, and the response to Insight's advertising was overwhelming.

This did not surprise me (lately the number of complaints I've heard about public schools has skyrocketed), but obviously caught the representative from Quillayute off guard (the schools really don't realize how alienating they've become)! People are anxious for alternatives.

The conference chamber reserved for this session was too small, and hotel workers had to make several trips to round up extra chairs for the people standing along the back and sides of the room.

Insight has no physical facilities, and the money that would be spent on buses, custodians, counselors, etc., goes to purchase quality education software and laptops to be loaned to students.

From the packet Insight provided, it appears that it offers many exciting classes. Students can take up to four years of Latin or Greek, for example. AP classes are also offered in many subjects. The representative said the website had samples of some of the lessons, but I have not checked into that yet.

I believe that by going online public schools may survive. The advantage of online lessons, even through public school, is that parents are on hand to see the material that is presented, and can put a counter spin on biased material or supplement if it is needed. They can also pressure the schools to provide better material, if they feel the lessons are not up to snuff.

Someone in Quillayute gets it! Perhaps it will catch on. However, I do believe that a public school that stressed conservative values and core knowledge would present some serious competition.

One that I had not considered, is the idea of schools created within our communities that are augmented by internet resources approved by parents. The curricula can be supervised by those who have the most stake in our children's futures, and the most honest concern for their well-being -- parents.

Teachers have a tough job, and parents in the current public school model, inadvertantly dump problems on teachers that cannot be solved appropriately because of the conflict created between the need for discipline and legal educational responsibility.

Remove that -- create schools that parents are invested in and thankful for, because they serve the purpose of education rather than the agenda of liberal communist e-d-u-c-a-t-o-r-s. Recreate the potential for academic achievement in America!
Take the schools back from the God-damned unions full of arrogant feminist fascists like Caprice Hollins.

My god, is she for ebonics? Jive? Piglatin? Does she believe that not being proficient in English is best for kids? Not sure but all I got to say is....no itch pops!

As for those bums on the P-I, they'll be joining their brethren on the street sooner than they think.

Right on the money.

Thanks.