That explains a bit

When the Seattle School District fought and lost their case to keep their race-based standards for the assignment of schools they got two Booby Prizes. One was the satisfaction of being on the wrong side of civil rights case. The other was a $1.8million bill from the legal firm that represented the victor in that case, Parents Involved in Community Schools.

However, since the school district is, well, a school district, fully immersed in the “everyone is special/there are no losers” mantra of life, they believe that they too won the case and are trying to ditch said legal bill (which has since increased to just under $2million).

Seattle Public Schools and the law firm involved in the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court case over school integration both found something to like in a ruling over whether the school district must pay roughly $2 million in attorneys fees.

U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Rothstein confirmed that the parent group that brought the case, Parents Involved in Community Schools, was the prevailing party, something the school district disputed. That was a necessary step for the law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine, to collect fees.

The judge in the case made note that she thought the district should get a cut on legal fees, and the district is using said note to weasel their way out completely now. The judge has since asked for briefs on the “special circumstances that exist that would render an award of fees unjust in this case.”

So the Seattle School District denies the civil rights of hundreds of thousands of students over the period of multiple decades, and then fought like hell in the court system to keep said civil rights violations the status quo, most likely in the hopes of being able to outspend their opponents, are now going to claim poverty because they cannot keep their accounting books in order and are in the hole.

I’ve seen the salaries of the administrators and board. Oddly enough, one year without getting paid would cover this bill.

How’s that for a solution?