Just when you thought things can't get any more ridiculous, this story comes along from the Staten Island Advance:
School asks: Is she black or white?
If they don't decide soon, PS 13 won't give them reports on performance
Friday, May 19, 2006
The parents of Ada Carr of Rosebank have until Tuesday to decide whether their 5-year-old daughter is white or black.
If they don't choose, they've been told they would not get complete reports on the biracial girl's performance in kindergarten, and Ada would be assigned a racial category by Principal Mark Gray of PS 13, according to a letter recently sent home from the Rosebank school.
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As for flexibility and adding another category for bi-racial or multi-racial students -- nope, not part of the vocabulary forf those who only see things in black and white.
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