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sundin13 on 18 February 2018
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Aeolus451 said:
sundin13 said:

And what does that have to do with digital record maintenance within Deleware public K-12 schooling?

Affirmative action tends to be a thing in tertiary schooling and private schooling, neither of which seem to be covered under this regulation, however, even if they were, I don't believe there is any language within this regulation which implies that these self-identified classifications are forced to override other checks when necessary. There is even language within this regulation which states that any scholarships within this school system may not discriminate based on any protected characteristics, making it explicit that race-specific grants and scholarships are not allowed under this regulation.

So, it seems they thoroughly covered your concerns...

Stop trying to downplay it into "digital record maintenance". It affects everything  from bathrooms to how sports will work out. If you identify yourself as black when you're actually white or asian, it will help you when you try to get into college because the school has you on the record as black.

It could easily expand to colleges.

From the topic of race, it will have nothing to do with bathrooms or sports. There is no real functional change here from the perspective of the K-12 school system.

As far as colleges, the reporting of race does not come from your school system. It is actually already self-reported, and has been for pretty much ever. While lying on these forms can get your application revoked (depending on the application), there is basically nothing in the way of checks for this, because it just isn't really a problem. Society has yet to crumble, so Deleware doing something that changes literally nothing should really not have that big of an impact.