These days, “voluntary segregation” is rarely based on racial discrimination, but on parental choice. Parents of ALL racial and ethnic backgrounds want their children to attend the safest and academically best-performing schools. This freedom to choose the best education for one’s children is as fundamental an American right as the choice of where to reside.

One would hope that the courts would not impose residency requirements by skin color under the banner of “racially balancing” California’s neighborhoods. Yet this recent decision allowing Los Angeles to continue its pracice of assigning students to magnet schools by race has just made the “slippery slope” of eroding citizens’ rights a lot more “slippery” — and the effort to “color-decode” our citizenry more urgent.

Freedom loving Americans across this nation, beware!