News Round Up, Another Unthemed Edition

A piece about what deferred action means to young immigrants.

Ugh... remember when I was worrying about those waivers the US Dept of Ed was giving out? Well this kind of thing is exactly why I was worried.   The notion that you would change the goals by race rather than trying to figure out how to get all to the same place is on its face ridiculous.  It is EXACTLY why there was an NCLB.  But there is more evil lurking here -- what if you are an Asian student who doesn't do well and needs help?  Where will you end up in this shuffle?  Will they just change your "race/ethnic" code in order to keep with the structure you've decided is the norm in your community?  Yeah, all kinds of issues here.  But mainly the idea that the waiver was so that you could feel like you, as an educational community, did not have to deal with the gap was not supposed to be the goal.

I am unsure where to go with this story.  On the one hand, being deceived is unpleasant, to say the very least.  But it is the sense of humiliation that is the worst -- in this case, that is all there is.  On the other hand, to take ourselves so seriously that being deceived could make us want to get out the pitchforks and torches seems extreme.  The young woman obviously needed attention -- had to have known that someday it would all come crashing down around her.  She is henceforth exposed -- her name in newspapers (at least online) around the world because this story will be too much for many to refuse.  Thoughts?