Very brief.

[alexandraerin]

I'm beginning to think that Anatole France had it wrong when he wrote "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread." Even the pose of law as something that is to be rigidly and impartially applied is something that is only adopted when it's not inconvenient for the privileged.

A case in point.

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[kosarin.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's appalling.

[meleth.livejournal.com]

What the fuck.

[cpip.livejournal.com]

Dear god. That was standard practice where I was growing up. My mother lied about my address so I could go to an elementary school near my grandfather's house instead of near where we actually lived.

[andy9306.livejournal.com]

It still is, as far as I know. I was in school up until a few years ago and people did this all the time. Granted, the education is setup a little differently in Canada, but when my mother did this with my sister she got a complaint from the school board, not prosecution.

[moofable.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised this is news. People got arrested for that regularly in Santa Ana, but people still did it.

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

It's only "news" for a certain value thereof... it might be possible to find mention of it somewhere through Yahoo! News or CNN.com, but it's not being pushed as an important story. I have yet to see a write-up of it on a page that doesn't identify as a Black news source.

And of course, people in nice, white areas do it, too, but it's either tacitly allowed or else only punished with a fine in the most egregious and obvious cases. I doubt statistics are kept on this, but the most common outcome I've heard anecdotally is just that the school boards put a stop to it when they find it.