In a stunning turn of events, a transfer of a white kindergartener that had been previously denied has been approved.
Madison resident Allison Cizek, 5, earlier denied permission to transfer to another school district because she is white, will be allowed to leave under an offer extended late Wednesday by state officials.
As the article briefly mentions, this is not at all a surprising result given our decisions to strike down racially-based districting decisions in Louisville and Seattle this summer (although if Ant tells me one more time that he's the one upholding Brown I'm gonna stick an Italian Sausage where the sun don't shine).
While the JP is a little skeptical about housing diversity stifling educational diversity, this is one case where the child's family's claim makes some sense:
Allison, a shy girl who was never told she was at the center of a legal dispute, now will be allowed to enter kindergarten where she 'd planned to go all along -- Monona Grove, where her mother is an elementary teacher. There 'll now be no need to pay for after-school day care for Allison.
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I'm the one upholding the GODDAMN CONSTITUTION!
Anyhow, I thought the real moral of this story was that to get anywhere, you need to throw down in court. Note that Madison is still discriminating against 140 other kids and just letting the litigious one escape.
On a side note, maybe the Madison plan is narrowly tailored, and the board doesn't feel bound by the plurality finding that discrimination based on race is NOT OK.
Which would make them wrong, obv.
Times are changing, JPS.
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