SCOTUS Seattle school diversity decision

Lots of discussion in the newspapers and Sunday TV talk shows today on the Supreme Court decision which held that it was unconstitutional for state school bureaucrats to employ race as a factor to determine which school a student attends. This was a typically bizarre example of race politics and quotas engendered by affirmative action creating absurd real life hardship on a family. The facts are a kindergarten five year old was denied the right to attend a school one mile from her home and required to attend a school 10 miles away because the racial "balance" or quota, so dictated. Bureaucrats decided based, upon the number of blacks and whites and Asians in a given school, that this little girl's family had to have her transported ten miles away because there weren't enough whites there to create the diversity deemed essential to creating an optimal learning environment unproved by any scientific studies that I am aware of. Wow! Good decision SCOTUS, I say. There are several aspects of this case that strike me as ridiculous. First, the basis for the bureaucrats decision, the liberal goddess "diversity", is supposed to be essential for blacks to make progress educationally. How then do we account for the fact that Howard University and other all black educational institutions produce well educated and productive black members of society year in year out without diversity? Second, as I understand it at most colleges blacks choose to live together in racially exclusive dorms and belong to racially exclusive clubs and societies sponsored by the universities. Third, what if the school the five year old was required to attend was demonstably inferior in standards of teaching, etc., to the one one mile away, which was unremarked upon in the decision but is often the case. Her parents are thus forced to endorse her attendance at a school that will not provide the equivalent learning environment of the school one mile away. Social engineering is thus depriving this child of a better educational foundation. The real issue here is not the diversity of the student body but the excellence of the teaching at a given school and the learning experience of the students. Until this issue is addressed, the social engineers and discrimination industry entrepreneurs will encounter resistence to their dream world of diversity as the answer to racial inequality. To his credit Mayor Bloomberg in New York has actually begun a program that addresses this very issue. I'll talk about his program shortly through the eyes of our daughter Lydia, in the Bloomberg program as we speak.