I was listening to a report on the Citadel on NPR this morning; this year's graduating class includes 7 black women, 7 white women, 3 asian women and 3 "international" women, whatever that means. Half a dozen years ago the Citadel had to be dragged into the twentieth century by a law suit (or maybe it was only a threatened law suit...I can't remember and its not important). I'm sure that the white males who previously had it, and certain other famous military schools, as private bastions of exclusivity would have prefered not changing and continuing to "go to school with one another".

Segregation is segregation. If these new regulations "will help school districts provide all-boys and all-girls classes and schools without fear of running afoul of federal law", as the article cited above says, than we are legalizing discrimination on the basis of sex. So much for the Equal Right Amendment. If parents are allowed to place their children in single-sex classes, why shouldn't they be allowed to place them in single-race classrooms? Or schools? Or busses? I wonder if those "separate but equal" water fountains are still in storage some place?