HOME REMEDIES TO WHITEN YOUR TEETH

Teeth whitening is something that has gained popularity in recent times. Although it does not have any significant health benefits, a whiter tooth is often considered a sign of healthy oral hygiene. With time, teeth whitening has gained importance, due to its cosmetic impact.This has resulted in a rise in the popularity of teeth whitening products.

But, if we look back in history, this trend isn’t something we can call as new. Whiter teeth have always been a mark of status, standard, and oral hygiene. Along with dental beautification, whiter teeth gained popularity as it became a sign of sophistication. 

Before technology took over what did we fall back on for whiter teeth? As it turned out, nature has provided us with several remedies for dental discoloration. It is these hacks, tips, and remedies that traditional cultures used to get whiter teeth. Let us look at a few of those homemade remedies so that you can try them out yourself to experience healthy dental hygiene. 

• Swishing Oil

This a popular and traditional method of teeth whitening, popular mostly in eastern cultures. This oil pulling method improves oral hygiene and is believed to remove toxins from the body as well. Swishing oils around the mouth remove the plague, causing bacteria and germs, preventing your teeth from turning yellow.

If you want to follow traditional methods, you can try sunflower oil or sesame oil as it is a popular choice according to Indian traditions. However, coconut oil is also a popular alternative as it has a pleasant taste and is known for its dental benefits. In fact, you can use any oil for this purpose.

This swishing oil method in your mouth helps reduce bacteria growth and prevent dental diseases and decay. This is effective against bacterias like Streptococcus mutans, often the root cause of dental problems like plaque formation and gingivitis.

Although you can try any oil for this purpose, coconut oil and sesame oil is preferred for their individual benefits. Even with science not proving the claim of oil pulling and swishing whitening your teeth, several people still practice this as it comes with several benefits, and people believe teeth whitening to be one of them.

While the high lauric acid in coconut acts as an anti-inflammatory remedy and anti-bacterial solution, sesame oil has proven to affect and reduce Streptococcus mutans in saliva in no time.

• Baking soda Toothpaste

With natural teeth whitening properties, baking soda is a popular traditional remedy for teeth whitening. It has also found its way into commercial teeth whitening toothpaste. It is a useful product for scrubbing away surface stains of your teeth.

Its mild abrasive quality makes it a good and effective teeth whitener. Being alkaline, it neutralizes the acidic state in your mouth and prevents bacteria growth.

Although it won’t show effect immediately, it improves your dental health, which becomes noticeable over time. This benefit is loved by commercial toothpaste companies, as they use it to make their toothpaste effective against yellow stains. The sudden rise in popularity of baking soda in commercial toothpaste is also due to studies that revealed that toothpastes with baking soda are much more effective in removing plagues than toothpastes without it.

• Activated Charcoal & Coconut

A key component in modern teeth whitening agents, activated charcoal and coconut, has been in use for ages. Although not scientifically proved, ancient cultures have believed that activated charcoal and coconut have teeth whitening benefits.

This became so popular that several cultures even used activated charcoal to brush their teeth. They believed that the use of activated charcoal could help them experience some noticeable changes.

With coconut already being an essential ingredient for maintaining dental health, modern toothpaste companies use these two products to make their product effective without any side effects.

While other companies use bleaches, peroxides, and chemicals to remove stains, products like Charcoal teeth whitening kit are based on naturally derived ingredients and are heavily dependent on providing their customers with whiter teeth without any side effects.

• Finding the solution in Fruits & Vegetables

Fruits and vegetables improve your health in general. It also improves your dental health. But, you need to know which veggies and fruits to pick up as a few of them can cause your teeth to stain even more.

1. Strawberries
   
   Did you know that most celebrity stylists suggest using strawberry and baking soda mix as a teeth whitening remedy?

It is mostly because strawberries contain malic acid, which has proven to be a significant ingredient in concoctions for dental discoloration removal.

The mixture of strawberry and baking soda is preferred by many as the baking soda buffs the stains away while the strawberry’s malic acid removes discoloration.

It is a strong tooth whitening mixture. This is why doctors often advise their patients not to use it too much or too frequently as it might damage your teeth.

1. Pineapple

Pineapple contains bromelain, an enzyme that has proven to be effective in removing teeth stains. Although its effectiveness is not backed by science, Pineapple is a common ingredient in standard toothpastes.

Bromelain concentration in Pineapple is not quite strong. This makes Pineapple ineffective against underlying teeth stains as it can’t penetrate the enamel.

• Watching What You Eat

This is an essential step, as most food items are often the cause of teeth stains. Watching what you eat and avoiding teeth-staining foods is something you should practice if you want whiter teeth.

The list of such food items includes coffee, red wine, soda, and dark berries.

Although several teeth whitening products are effective and have instant results, doctors often advise you against them as they contain harmful chemicals. It’s better to try these home remedies or try products like natural ingredients-based products Charcoalo teeth whitening kit. Teeth whitening products like Charcoalo teeth whitening kit are often recommended because they contain natural ingredients, making them extremely safe and effective while taking away the risk of damaging your enamel.

With all the best possible remedies laid out, you must keep in mind that there is no better alternative than brushing and flossing. Instead, they should never be underestimated as they are the key acts of maintaining your oral hygiene.

The federally supplied kits can detect coronavirus within 15 minutes of a sample being taken.

The Galveston Independent School District this week was among a few that received a COVID-19 prevention tool Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promised last month — tests that can diagnose a COVID-19 infection within 15 minutes of being administered.

Although Galveston ISD has received its free shipment of 2,000 rapid tests, other local school districts still are on a waiting list for devices.

The Galveston school district planned to begin offering tests to students and staff members displaying COVID-19 symptoms at its on-campus health clinics. Fifteen people received rapid tests Thursday, officials said.

The tests would enable administrators to make quicker decisions if the virus is detected inside a school, officials said.

“Rapid tests are reliable and allow us to quickly identify contagious individuals in order to make swift decisions about treatment,” said Dr. Richard Rupp, the medical director at the district’s teen health centers.

“The earlier we can make decisions the better, and we are grateful that we now have the ability to determine if someone is positive for COVID-19 within a matter of minutes.”

The Galveston school district is one of at least two districts in the county to receive the rapid tests. The Texas City Independent School District also recently received a shipment of about 1,200 tests, district spokeswoman Melissa Tortorici said.

The Santa Fe Independent School District has requested the COVID tests but had not received a shipment by Thursday, a spokeswoman said. The Dickinson Independent School District said it did not request any tests from the state. The Clear Creek Independent School district didn’t respond to a question about the rapid tests.

As of Thursday afternoon, the Texas Education Agency had supplied 717,625 rapid tests to 339 school systems, including private schools, the agency said.

Abbott announced in October that the state would make rapid tests available to schools wanting them and introduced a pilot program that includes eight school districts. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided the test kits to the state.

The kits are part of a promise the federal health department made in August to distribute 150 million rapid tests nationwide. The kits contain antigen tests, which are faster than PCR tests — the kind of test available at sites such as the University of Texas Medical Branch — but are less able to detect low levels of the virus.

The tests arrived in Galveston a week after the school district canceled in-person classes at one of its middle schools because of a case of COVID-19 identified in a single student. The number of close contacts the student had with teachers and staff prompted the school district to close Central Middle School and switch all of its student to virtual learning until contact tracing and thorough cleaning could be completed at the school.

In-person classes had resumed Wednesday for most students at the school. The district kept seventh-grade students off campus, however, because too many teachers still were quarantined after close contact with the infected student.

The district couldn’t find enough substitute teachers to cover the entire grade, spokesman Billy Rudolph said.

Seventh-grade students will not return to in-person class until Nov. 19 at the earliest, Rudolph said.

Despite the quarantines, no infections have been reported connected to the COVID-positive student, Rudolph said.

Most local school districts began returning to in-person classes in August. Since then, there have been no widespread outbreaks of COVID-19 connected to students, teachers or school staff in the county.

As of Thursday, there were 1,004 active cases of COVID-19 in Galveston County, according to the Galveston County Health District. Of those, 104 cases were in people younger than 20 years old, according to the health district.

Source: Galveston, Texas City ISDs supplied with rapid COVID tests | Local News | The Daily News

It took 404 days, five extensions, and a lawsuit for the University of California, Los Angeles to fulfill a single open records request.

Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education announces a victory in the lawsuit — filed to remind UCLA and public institutions around the country that they have a moral and legal obligation to fulfill public records requests.

“It shouldn’t take over a year and litigation to get 13 pages of documents from a public university,” said FIRE Director of Litigation Marieke Tuthill Beck-Coon. “The people of California deserve far better from the institutions they fund.”

The Superior Court of California entered judgment in FIRE’s favor on Oct. 20, ruling that UCLA’s handling of a 2018 records request from FIRE violated the California Public Records Act. As part of the resolution, UCLA admitted that it violated the law by failing to fulfill the request for over a year.

FIRE’s suit stemmed from a 2018 speaking engagement by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin. On Feb. 28, 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mnuchin “retracted his permission” for UCLA to release a video of his speaking appearance at a campus forum two days earlier. During the appearance, several protesters were escorted from the facility, leading to five arrests.

Seeking to learn more, FIRE issued a public records request to UCLA on March 2, 2018 for a copy of the video and any communications about its release, as well as any agreements between Mnuchin’s office and UCLA about the secretary’s appearance. UCLA publicly posted the video to its website on March 9, but failed to release any of the other requested documents. Instead, UCLA responded to FIRE with a succession of emails repeatedly awarding itself extensions — five in all — before FIRE filed a lawsuit on March 27, 2019.

UCLA finally handed over the 13 pages of requested documents on April 10, 2019 — more than 13 months after FIRE filed its original request.

The California Public Records Act requires that public institutions like public colleges make copies of public records “promptly available,” and not delay the production of records. By stipulating to the judgment entered by the Superior Court of California, UCLA admitted that it violated the CPRA by failing to make the documents promptly available to FIRE and unlawfully delayed its response.

FIRE was represented by Kelly Aviles of the Law Offices of Kelly Aviles and FIRE attorneys Beck-Coon and Greg H. Greubel. FIRE is grateful to Aviles for her excellent work on our behalf and her dedication to governmental transparency.

UCLA, like many public institutions, has a checkered history with fulfilling public records requests. The Daily Bruin, UCLA’s independent student newspaper, houses a database on its website listing unfulfilled requests to the university.

“With this suit fresh in their minds, we encourage UCLA to finally fulfill the Daily Bruin’s many ignored requests for documents,” said Beck-Coon. “Government actors like UCLA can’t ignore the law and let records requests languish indefinitely. This lawsuit is proof of that.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to defending and sustaining the individual rights of students and faculty members at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process, legal equality, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience — the essential qualities of liberty.

Source: LAWSUIT VICTORY: UCLA admits to violating the law after stonewalling open records request for over a year

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Allowing federal agents to monitor anyone’s prescription records without a warrant is a recipe for disaster.

The proportion of people using prescription drugs and the amount of prescriptions filled varies by demographic group. Prescription drug use is associated with age, gender, race and ethnicity, income, and health status. For example, prescription drug use increases with age. Three-quarters of those age 50 to 64 use prescription drugs, compared to 91 percent of those age 80 and older. The average number of prescriptions filled also increases with age, from 13 for those age 50 to 64 to 22 for those age 80 and older.

Who in their right mind believes that millions of elderly Americans taking prescription drugs should be treated like suspected criminals? Yet that is exactly what is happening. When the Feds are allowed to create and use a surveillance program masquerading as a prescription monitoring program, no one is safe, not kids, teenagers or the elderly.

Welcome to post 9/11 where the Feds treat everyone taking prescription drugs like a suspect.

As Filter Mag warns, the DEA has a history of exploiting administrative subpoenas to build a mass surveillance apparatus. The DEA’s 343 million license plate database is a perfect example of how the DEA has secretly created a national license plate surveillance network.

Allowing the DEA to scrutinize the percentage of patients receiving opioids, Buprenorphine or Oxycodone scripts is horrifying. If you have ever had to fill a prescription or pick up one for a family member, you know that they record your ID and all your personal information.

“The impact of including buprenorphine will be appalling for people’s health,” Dr. Hannah Cooper, the chair of substance use disorder research at Emory University

Exploring the impact of prescription drug monitoring programs

Allowing federal agents to monitor anyone’s prescription records without a warrant is a recipe for disaster.

The idea that patient-level data is available to the DEA is quite frightening. We don’t want to make people worry that their decisions will be monitored by this highly punitive federal agency,” said Cooper. “If you’ve been inhabiting a space where you’ve been persecuted by the federal government for some time, and they now have access to your private medical information, there will be tremendous consequences for population health and health equity.

Here’s one example of how law enforcement could abuse monitoring 131 American’s prescription records. Imagine being involved in an automobile accident or being arrested for protesting police abuse, etc. Now imagine what would happen when the District Attorney subpoena’s your prescription drug history. Can you guess what the outcome would be once a judge and or jury is told about your prescription drug history?

This is just one example of how everyone’s lives could be affected by a federal prescription monitoring program.

Source: The DEA Wants Access To 131 Million Prescription Records – Activist Post

Eight days from today is Thanksgiving and the pandemic’s insult to our collective serenity abides. Our intimate family settings will be carried out under a pall of restrictions as we focus compellingly on gratitude and compulsively on mass discontent. We are antsy for respite.

In past years, I’ve urged readers to boycott on Thanksgiving those establishments that don’t close on the holiday or give their employees a paid day off with bonus money if they choose to work. After all, if fast-food restaurants like McDonald’s are hungrier for a buck than a ravenous customer for a burger, they should be chastened.

They’d claim that they’re actually performing a public service and that any resulting profit is incidental to their commercially ingenious policy for addressing the epidemic of isolation in the City where so many people are alone and without a place to go for emotional succor or feast.

But in 2020, with so much unemployment contributing to our misery and with even the most prosperous chains under economic siege, we should patronize them and bear gifts, even if just in the form of a verbal expression of appreciation, to their workers. Protesting their being open for business on Thanksgiving would not be consistent with the wish to see them thrive or at least minimally sustained for the good of their labor force.

Perhaps on Thanksgiving 2021, we will again witness the greed of a fast-food restaurant chain staying open to rake in the coupons of their competitors that are closed out of respect for the holiday and its workers. Maybe the surrounding world will allow for a reversion to the Game of Corporate Thrones. But for now and for Christmas next month, let those grub syndicates be the beneficiaries of our open wallets.

The decision to close or stay open does not affect only restaurants. The same principle applies to any box store. Let’s make this year the “blackest of “Black Fridays”!

PC Richard, the “appliance giant” started the trend of closing their stores on Thanksgiving many years ago, in deference to the wholesome sentimentality of the occasion. It has a tonic effect on one’s outlook to witness a business showing humanity as at least a partial contributing motive for their actions.

For instance, the now defunct J and R store, located near the World Trade Center, reportedly continued to pay its employees for an extended period of time after they were forced to close in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
New Yorkers should confer the blessing of their purchases on proprietors who generously compensate their workers, not only in salary but also the “psychic wage”. In most years, that would entail their being padlocked on Thanksgiving so that their employees can bond with family and friends and practice the values that the holiday represents and do so without fear of discouragement.

In this Year of the Virus, it almost amounts to a charitable policy to keep their stores open for business. But in doing so, there should still be no coercion of employees to clock in and no favoritism shown to those who sacrifice a Thanksgiving at home to report to work.

And employees should get double their hourly pay. Not because it is required by law, because it isn’t. But out of the spirit of decency that we all need in mega-doses during this protracted season of tribulation.

Ron Isaac

Source: The Dystopian “Fourth Industrial Revolution” Will Be Very Different from the First One | Mises Wire

Classified the episode as ‘discrimination’ and ‘harassment.’

In November 2019, a George Mason University professor stumbled upon a Bible and an accompanying CD in her classroom. The professor collected the items and immediately reported the items to the school’s Bias Incident Reporting Team, which classified the episode as “discrimination” and “harassment” against “religion.”

The professor accompanied her report with photographs of the Bible, and the items were collected by the Bias Team.

The incident was one of 12 filed with the school’s bias reporting website between January 1, 2019 and January 1, 2020 and obtained by The College Fix through an open records law request. The documents provided by the university were redacted to protect the privacy of students involved.

The reports were obtained as The Fix continues to investigate the types of complaints that are lodged through bias response teams at college campuses across the nation. Nearly two dozen universities have been included in the investigation so far since it launched in 2019.

According to George Mason’s Campus Climate website, students and professors are encouraged to report and “act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, violence or criminal offense committed against any person, group or property that appears to be motivated by prejudice or bias.”

According to the school, “bias” could mean “negative feelings and beliefs with respect to others race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age social class, political affiliation, disability, veteran status, club affiliation or organizational membership.”

“Such bias incidents may be intentional or unintentional and affect the individual or Mason community,” according to the school’s bias reporting website.

“Our bias reporting and response protocols appropriately balance our efforts to strive for a bias free environment while protecting the individual rights to free speech,” said GMU spokesman Michael Sandler in an e-mail to The Fix.

“Our policies have been vetted by university counsel and have been endorsed by free speech advocates outside the university,” said Sandler, adding, “Mason also has the highest rating from The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which rates universities on their ability to protect students and faculty members rights to free speech, freedom of association, due process, legal equality, religious liberty and sanctity of conscience.”

In a September 2019 incident, a student reported a communications professor for asking the student to give up an accommodation that allowed them to turn in assignments late. The student said the professor made them feel “very unsafe” because she implied the student was “taking advantage of disability services.”

The professor then allegedly asked the student what the special accommodation was for, which the student said “is not something that I feel comfortable sharing.”

“She also pulled my [study] partner out of the room and tried to pressure her into making me present,” said the student. “My partner currently has a concussion and the professor claimed that she was faking,” reported the student.

“I feel that this teacher has a pattern of discrimination which goes against George Mason’s code of ethics,” the student wrote. “I feel that she is not a safe person to have in the classroom,” reported the student.

The student said among those notified were the GMU Compliance, Diversity and Ethics Office, the Office of Disability Services, and “all my friends.”

In another incident, a student in the multi-cultural/multil-lingual education program overheard two middle-aged women in the admissions office discussing their frustration with so many students waiting until the last minute to turn in their transcripts. One of the women allegedly said she was particularly frustrated with international students who used excuses like time differences and language barriers to ask for filing extensions.

“The adviser then went on to say that she felt that the international students just plagued the various advisers and offices looking for the answers they wanted, not the answers they were given,” reported the student, adding “She said that if an exception is made for any international student, then they will come to expect it, because they talk together.”

“This sort of discrimination and prejudice from the university’s own admissions office is completely egregious and unacceptable,” wrote the student. “It is also entirely unprofessional that these employees were having this conversation in a public area in front of other students,” the student said, adding they now feel “extremely uncomfortable and unwelcome” at George Mason University.

Other reports filed with the school included:

· At a Presidential Search Community Session in October 2019, a transgender student rose to offer an opinion and ask a question. The student said the leader of the search committee “cut me off before I could finish my question and very aggressively and very condescendingly confronted me, in front of the entire room, about my question without providing an answer.”

“I could not help but notice that the only trans woman in the room was silenced while others were allowed to go on, essentially as long as they wanted to,” reported the students, adding, “To me, this incident very clearly displayed an act of casual, if not outright, transphobia.”

The student never reported the question asked or the opinion offered.

· In November, a group of campus police officers began asking students in the Mason Global Center if they could recognize a thin black man in a photo taken by a security camera. According to one student, “It was clear to me that he was insinuating that he wanted me to direct him to anyone matching the suspect’s description, no matter if I was sure it was them or not.”

“It was an extremely uncomfortable situation that was not only undoubtedly rooted in racial discrimination, but one that makes the entire community very discontent [sic]” the student reported.

· A student complained that the Facebook group “GMU GeneralPosting” is “well known for its systemic bias against African Americans and other POC.”

Updated to include a statement sent by a George Mason University spokesman after the article was originally published.

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Source: George Mason U. professor finds Bible, reports it to ‘bias’ hotline | The College Fix

Wait, what?

When is your minority group no longer non-white? Apparently when your academic performance is just too good.

In an equity report from 2019 that was promptly removed after it was first reported on this week, the North Thurston Public Schools in Thurston County, Washington, measured “White/Asian Students” against “Students of Color” in order to ascertain any performance gap. The report also looked at “Students of Poverty” against “Non Poverty” students.

“Students of Color compares outcomes for Asian and White students [with students] who identify as Black, Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Multi-racial students, all of whom have experienced persistent opportunity gaps in our society,” the report read.

“Students of Poverty is a visualization of opportunity gaps for students experiencing poverty, as measured by qualification for free or reduced price meals.”

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Even with that crude attempt to play around with the data, the report didn’t find many significant gaps between white/Asian students and students of color, with only two major indicators — third-grade language arts test scores and sixth-grade math test scores — being over 10 percent.

According to Fox News, the district, 55 miles south of Seattle, is responsible for 16,000 students.

Reason’s Robby Soave drew attention to the equity report in a Monday article.

“What the equity report really highlights is the absurdities that result from overreliance on semi-arbitrary race-based categories,” he wrote.

“The report also measured ‘students of poverty’ —those who qualify for free or reduced-cost lunches — against non-poverty students, and unsurprisingly found a much more significant achievement gap. ‘Students of poverty’ perform 28 percent worse on math tests, for instance. That socioeconomic category captures something real and meaningful in a way that the gerrymandered race category does not.”

A paragraph earlier, Soave made the point a different way:

“Most indicators in the report show that the achievement gap between white/Asian students and ‘students of color’ is fairly narrow and improving over time. It would probably be even narrower if Asian students were categorized as ‘students of color.’ In fact, some indicators might have even shown white students lagging behind that catch-all minority group. Perhaps Asians were included with whites in order to avoid such an outcome.”

The superintendent of the school system didn’t respond to a request for comment from Reason — so we don’t know how the district might respond to Soave’s hypothesis that “some indicators might have even shown white students lagging behind that catch-all minority group” if Asians were removed.

Instead of responding, the district removed the report, and issued a statement on its website that claims the purpose behind it was closing gaps between underperforming groups of students.

“For this reason, in one of our online documents from 2019, titled ‘Monitoring Student Growth,’ we evaluated the achievement data by ‘Students of Color’ and ‘Students of Poverty.’ In the document we grouped White and Asian students together.

“Upon reflection and response by members of the Asian-American community, we will change how we look at achievement data and appreciate the feedback we received. We apologize for the negative impact we have caused and removed the monitoring report from our website.”

First off, the notion that this decision involved “reflection” is risible. The Reason report was published Monday. The district replaced the chart and issued its statement the same day.

So a few hours, at most, of careful contemplation played an integral role in administrators coming to the carefully measured realization that a year-old report was problematic in how it dealt with Asian-American students.

Leaving that absurdity aside, this should have been sufficient.

However, the types of administrators prone to issuing that kind of equity report in the first place are also the same kind of people prone to performative self-sabotage, and the statement curdled into a non-apology apology, as the district maintained it was “important to continue the practice of disaggregating data, so we make equity-based decisions.”

“When we reviewed our disaggregated data it showed that our district is systemically meeting the instructional needs of both our Asian and White students and not meeting the instructional needs for our Black, Indigenous, Multi-racial, Pacific Islander and Latinx students,” the statement read.

“The intent was never to ignore Asian students as ‘students of color’ or ignore any systemic disadvantages they too have faced.”

The last part is decidedly untrue unless you want to admit the categories in the equity report are wholly arbitrary. If this is what they meant, it’s what they should have said when this report was originally published.

Instead, this feels closer to one of the more pernicious biases in modern education: The idea that Asian-Americans are successful enough academically that they’re not really a minority.

Consider Harvard, where being Asian is negatively correlated with admission and Asians aren’t considered a minority for admissions purposes, according to a 2018 report from The New York Times. Documents from a 2014 lawsuit against the university for its race-based admittance practices also asserted Asian students were systematically rated lower on personality traits by admissions interviewers.

And yet, the courts have thus far sided with Harvard. According to National Review, a federal judge in Boston found October 2019 decision that “[r]ace is only intentionally considered as a positive attribute” in Harvard’s admission policies, while conceding that “[r]ace conscious admissions will always penalize to some extent groups that are not being advantaged by the process.”

The ruling was upheld by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals last week, and is likely headed to the Supreme Court.

That’s at the higher end of the food chain, though. At the lower end, you have the North Thurston Public Schools, which is so concerned about equity among what they call “Students of Color” that it decided Asians didn’t fit in that category.

Source: ‘Woke’ Leftists: School District Makes Decision That Asian Students Are Not Considered ‘Students of Color’