Yesterday, we kicked off a post on an apparently growing trend towards racism in education with a link to Betsy Newmark's look at Seattle's public school system. Betsy has an update today:

Yesterday, I blogged about Seattle Public School's laughable racism policy. As I noted and the the Seattle newspaper reports today, they have now taken down their controversial description of racism and replaced it with another statement sure to rile people up. Part of that explanation had this sentence in it.

Our intention is not to put up additional barriers or develop an “us against them” mindset, nor is it to continue to hold onto unsuccessful concepts such as a melting pot or colorblind mentality.

So, apparently, the school system now thinks that Martin Luther King's plea for a society where his children could be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin is a rejected and unsuccessful goal in Seattle.

It shows how far we've come in our approaches to race these days that what was a noble statement by Martin Luther King over 40 years ago is today a sign of racism itself.