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More Supreme Court Meddling

Back in the year 1954, the Supreme Court decided in Brown v Board of Education local school boards could not send school chlldren in the same neighborhood to different schools  based on arbitary distinctions, in this case race.   What the Supreme Court mandated was de-segregation.

Now mind you, the Constitution gives the Supreme Court utterly no authority over local school boards.   Yet for reason, or reasons, unknown the Supreme Court saw fit to meddle. 

Now in the sixty plus years since Brown local schools boards have turned Brown on its head.   Now school  boards are using Brown as a rational to send school children in the same neighborhood to different schools, the very practice that Brown was intended to stop.   Whereas in 1954 we sent children in the same neighborhood to different schools in the name of segregation, today we send children in the same neighborhood to seperate schools in the name of diversity.

Since when did diversity became a constitutional value?  Nancy Benac reports:

WASHINGTON -(AP [1])- The Supreme Court is diving into a debate over school diversity that is as old as Reconstruction-era efforts to integrate blacks into the mainstream and as new as the 5:35 a.m. start time on some buses carrying students across town in Louisville, Ky.

At a time of rising de facto segregation in public schools, the high court is to hear arguments Monday on lawsuits by parents in Louisville and Seattle who are challenging policies that use race to help decide where children go to school.

It is the contitutional role of the Supreme Court to interpert matters of law.  Yet note how the Supreme is being asked, and expected, to decide social policy:

Educators, civil rights advocates, politicians and parents — not to mention students — are watching for a potential watershed ruling on what value the nation should place on diversity in the classroom, and at what price.

It not the proper role of the Supreme Court to decide social values.   For that we have elections and legislators.  It is the elected representatives of the People whos proper job is to decide social policy.   It is long past time for the Supreme Court to butt out of the People’s affairs.