Goodbye to solidarity

What a rare and welcome display of common sense:

PHOENIX -- An administrative law judge ruled Tuesday that a Tucson school district's ethnic studies program violates state law, agreeing with the findings of Arizona's public schools chief.

Judge Lewis Kowal's ruling marked a defeat for the Tucson Unified School District, which appealed the findings issued in June by Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal.

Kowal's ruling, first reported by The Arizona Daily Star, said the district's Mexican-American Studies program violated state law by having one or more classes designed primarily for one ethnic group, promoting racial resentment and advocating ethnic solidarity instead of treating students as individuals.

It never ceases to amaze that supposedly intelligent, enlightened people are willing to justify the vilest racial ugliness in the name of diversity. "Treating students as individuals"? What a concept! Some country ought to write that down in a constitution or something.