Skin Deep

With the recent Supreme Court decision that school districts can no longer use race as a tiebreaker to determine which school to send a student in a district, it has become very clear that the idea of "diversity" in the Seattle School District has only been a matter of skin color.

In Seattle, students are typically allowed to declare what high school they want to attend. Students interested in a drama program would go to one school, computer science another school, and sports a third. When there are more students than spaces, there are going to be some students who don't get their wish. There's a list of qualifiers to determine which student makes the cut, and who has to make do with their second or third choice. One of those qualifiers is "race."

While this is sad by itself, it's nothing new for the district. The Seattle School District sent several of their students to a "diversity training camp". This turned out to be nothing more than blatant WASP-bashing, grilling into the heads of the attendees that anyone white is bad, privileged or not.

The problem is not one of race, or diversity. It is one of agenda. The Seattle School District has put ideology ahead of reason, and this is the first step on the way to the breakdown of that false ideology.