Dustbury has this interesting news about our new almost-home-town of Boulder. It seems that, in practice, under Colorado’s open enrollment for public schools plan, people don’t sort themselves voluntarily into groups evenly distributed among races, classes, and ethnic backgrounds.
dustbury.com: Can’t we all just get in line?:
The People’s Republic of Boulder, like the rest of Colorado, has open enrollment in its public schools, and apparently it’s preventing the materialization of a perfectly-integrated multiracial utopia…
Maybe “equality” isn’t what we think it is? Maybe that’s not even the right question to ask. Do we even know what the right question is? And would we then ask it aloud?
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