Posted on 05/16/2011 8:53:33 PM PDT by quantim
HONOLULU (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a dispute over whether to identify students challenging a private school system's admissions policy that gives preference to those of Hawaiian ancestry.
The court's action ends the lawsuit and leaves in place lower court rulings against four non-Hawaiian students who objected to the Kamehameha Schools' policy.
The challengers, who applied for admission to Kamehameha in the 2008-09 school year, wanted to file their lawsuit anonymously because of concerns about public humiliation and retaliation if they were identified.
A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2009, but the students' attorneys appealed and asked for the case to move forward while maintaining the students' anonymity.
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“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” — George Orwell
AS a non-native Hawaiian, I’d bet better than even money at least one of those kids are going to get their ass beat.
These decisions only encourage some “hawaiians” toward the violence they already threaten. The school’s charter is to teach the “children of Hawaii”. Today’s revisionists have interpreted the mandate as “to teach Hawaiian children”. Kamehameha Bishop Estate enjoy tax free status and the billions in federal funds and tax free benefits received are used solely for race based programs. Sadly, Kamehameha schools only serve a select few of the Hawaiian population. Left for the “rest of us” to educate and pay for are a large population of Hawaiian children at risk. Sadly, the whole Kamehameha program will suffer because the US is “running out of other people’s money”. There IS a God.
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