Today's News: School to be desegregated!

No, I'm not trying to simulate what blogging may have looked like in 1954. This is apparently what has actually happened in Dallas. If Borat's film wasn't enough to convince you, there is all kind of racism still lurking just under the surface. In this case it wasn't even lurking, this was a public school that was allowing white kids to be put in all-white classes.

For years, it was an open secret at North Dallas' Preston Hollow Elementary School: Even though the school was overwhelmingly Hispanic and black, white parents could get their children into all-white classes. And once placed, the students would have little interaction with the rest of the students.

The result, a federal judge has ruled, was that principal Teresa Parker "was, in effect, operating, at taxpayer's expense, a private school for Anglo children within a public school that was predominantly minority."

And so it goes in certain enclaves in North America... (HT: Atrios)

Tags: Education, Racism.