Court Opinion

ID: 9455924
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:37:23.186512+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:47.471086
License: Public Domain

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring in part and dissenting in part):
In this case, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare recommended that the Bay County Educable Mentally Retarded Program, established in 1967 at Rosenwald, be relocated. The majority of this Panel directs that the feasibility of retaining this program at Rosenwald be explored. In this I heartily concur.
In all other particulars I respectfully dissent. It seems to me that this decision again allows statistics, in isolation, to outweigh all other considerations. I would hold that Bay County in fact does have a public school system in which no child is deprived of the right to attend a school on account of his race or color.
I would not further disrupt this school system solely to attain a more evenly distributed racial balance, which, as I understand it, is not required by the Constitution if the school system is a unitary one.
I would affirm the Judgment of the District Court.