By Jim Brown
(AgapePress) – A federal court in Boston will be settling a dispute over whether racial diversity can be forced in public schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The case involves the 15,000-student Lynn School District and its desegregation policy, which prevents a student from transferring into or out of a racially imbalanced school if the move would increase the imbalance in either school.
During the trial, the state has argued that having children of different races mix on an equal basis when they are young can help improve academic achievement and their ability to get along with others.
Chester Darling is president of the group Citizens for the Preservation of Constitutional Rights, a group challenging the forced diversity policy. He says the state is trying to trash and jettison the 14th Amendment.
“There is no advancement academically because of the mix in the races,” Darling says. “Diversity is fine, [and] socially it's nice to have the composition of the classrooms reflect the society we live in. But neighborhoods are neighborhoods, and demographically some schools have more white kids than black kids and vice-versa.”
Darling says liberal groups like the ACLU and the NAACP, which have a financial interest in diversity training, would like to impose affirmative action policies from kindergarten to graduate school.
“Americans are Americans, and our heritage, our accents, our skin color, and cultures are footnotes to the character of the person we are,” he says, “and they can be very interesting and contribute a lot to society. But they shouldn't be the determining factor as to whether or not you get a job or go to a particular school.”
Final arguments in the case are scheduled for October. Darling says either the Lynn case or one similar to it will likely go before the U..S. Supreme Court in a year or two.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
