I gave them the benefit of doubt ...  

Even after they ignored several interesting statistics brought up, the clinical world grew up and moved on. If people don't want to acknowledge the physical differences with respect to "races" then I guess their entitled to their beliefs even if it's scientifically incorrect ...

Not sure why I should care. At its heart, this is an anti-discrimination provision, so this should offer no real change. No one was treated any differently by my school system depending on their race, and if they were that is something that should be frowned upon.

So, I conclude, who cares? Seems like you are making a big deal out of nothing.

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'Race', just like any form of subdivision of living creatures, is a human construction. There's a scientific consensus that all humans that aren't extinct belong to the same species and the same race.

I'm Daffy Duck and the Martian Queen is in love with me.

All the part of the law they're referencing really does is attempt to make paperwork easier. Race is always either identified by student or parent. In older grades, typically by the student. This allows the school to bypass parents in certain situations. This is because there are cases where parents have conflicting views on a child's race (there are situations where one parent will insist a student is black, and another insists they are not), situations where parents are nigh impossible to get a hold of, situations where a parent refuses to answer questions of race, and so on. And of course, there is the situation that you have kids who are old enough to self identify race, (so far from my experience, about 100% of students identify race as you would expect) and you have no need to involve parents. Of course, the law preserves the school's ability to consult parents, and use them as the determining factor.

Of course, all this does is dictate what goes into a field in a computer system. Which... I guess is a big deal to some people?

I think we do this here in Brazil as well. It’s a little weird and there are a few cases of white people abusing it to get in good colleges, but those are outliers. Overall, it doesnt affect much...

I'm pretty sure we do it everywhere... Whenever I've filled out my ethnicity on a form, I've never ever been forced to take a DNA test.

I'm sweet grapes.

I mean, who cares? That's no information anyone should be starting anything with in the first place, if the terms lose credibility/significance, all the better.