Federal law says that every student in a public school has to be classified by race. If parents or students refuse to check one of the five racial categories provided, the school will choose the race for them.
Some parents object to having to classify their children by race, others object that their preferred label is not on the menu. Whatever the merit of monitoring in order to counter possible discrimination, we risk perpetuating a racialized worldview through our children.When will we finally explore the myth of race in our society as unfortunate social fact and 19th century scientific fiction? There is now broad scientific consensus that race does not exist biologically.
Certainly genetic variations are found more commonly (though not exclusively) in one population than another. But these differences do not equate to our everyday notion of race.
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