Case Study: The Seattle School System
The Seattle school case and Gratz v. Bollinger were in fact colorblind. The Seattle school system didn’t want to become un-proportional in terms of race. Any school that became out of line with that would start to evaluate the race of students, trying to keep as close to 60-40 as possible. The court begins to question the fact the only thing being considered is the race of the students when putting them into particular schools. They believed it is not just about color, but about where the kids have grown up, what religion the child might identify with, their value system and so on and so forth. Although the school system wants to become more diverse the court also said there had to be a preexisting problem of racial bias along with a history