Schools reacted by enforcing integration. But on March 20 of this year, a blow was dealt to forced integration when the Supreme Court let stand a family's successful legal challenge to the Montgomery County, VA, school system's race-based student transfer policy. But what Brown actually strikes down is forcible segregation, not voluntary movement. That is not what is happening in the case of Jacob Eisenberg. People choosing to exercise their limited choice of schools in the public system aren't systematically segregating themselves, since students of all creeds and colors have the same option.
Public schools are in a tizzy as to how to react.
What school officials fail to understand is that forced integration isn't the only answer to forced segregation. God knows the public schools could use more focus on that.