Separate But Equal Education, Part Deux

Yesterday, we kicked off a post on an apparently growing trend towards racism in education with a link to Betsy Newmark’s look at Seattle’s public school system. Betsy has an update today:

Yesterday, I blogged about Seattle Public School’s laughable racism policy. As I noted and the the Seattle newspaper reports today, they have now taken down their controversial description of racism and replaced it with another statement sure to rile people up. Part of that explanation had this sentence in it.

Our intention is not to put up additional barriers or develop an