Middle School finally ends policy where race determined who could run for SGA offices

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<p>" Following an uproar over a policy it said was designed 30 years ago to achieve racial equality, a school district board in a Mississippi town on Friday scrapped a system of student elections where race determined whether a candidate could run for some class positions, including president.</p>

<p>The rules sparked an outcry after Brandy Springer, a mother of four mixed-race children in Nettleton, Miss., complained that her 12-year-old daughter couldn’t run for class reporter because she wasn’t the right race."</p>

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<p>I saw that and couldn’t believe it took a parent to complain before they stopped it. What were those administrators thinking?</p>

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<p>Yes, they had to update that memo yearly</p>

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<p>That’s so embarrassing. I don’t know how people can live there and stand it.</p>