*Some activities, such as homecoming court voting, are still bafflingly segregated.
at a public school? I can’t believe that is allowed. If it was, someone would sued it out of existence a long time ago.
No one has tried to sue.
Why? Where is the NAACP on this? This sounds like it would be an open and shut of case of discrimination.
Last I heard, local NAACP chapter is too busy trying to to get a street renamed after MLK (it already has an “honorary name” but I think they want a real name change? idk). Anyway, they don’t seem too worried about it right now.
Has school district made any argument as to how this is not a violation of the Constitution?
Current policy is to have everyone vote on both a Minority ballot and Majority ballot, alternating years between which winner is actually the homecoming queen regardless of who actually got more votes. There’s been no mention of the constitution, but this is the defense the board secretary offered last year:
"Either we do it how we’re doing it and that ensures that everybody is happy or we go to the student body electing whomever they want to be the queen and that could be a white girl every year,”
which shows a complete lack of faith in us students, who have been calling for change for years, so it seems that probably wouldn’t be the case.