Article 15
Dr. House slayer
- Jul 4, 2008
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I wonder if they'd have been allowed to cancel the dance on the basis of a black couple attending?Yes, I said that also. I don't mean to imply that everyone in the county would immediately abandon their homes, but, given the chance to live inside the district or outside the district (which is a major consideration for home buyers and renters with kids) they may decide to live outside the district boundries.
This is the whole point of having localised control of school districts vs state or federal administration: Parents have a HUGE amount of power and input over school administration in the USA.
so people are supposed to pander to people's biases?
there will always be racists. there will always be homophobes. there will always be anti-semitics.
i'm pretty sure that we shouldn't be allowing schools to formulate policy to feed those hatreds.
we're not supposed to be tolerant of people's hatred.
For some reason I doubt the people of that county are a big fan of the coloreds or especially interacial dating.