Assigning students to schools by race, even with transfers, is unconstitutional.

Evidence

The pupil-placement plan had students initially enrolled in schools according to their race and then allowed them to transfer out on an individual basis because of “nonracial” factors. These programs produced little progress towards desegregation and were subsequently found unconstitutional because the initial placing was done by race (Rossell, 4). — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 17

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the pupil-placement technique so the reader can recognize it as an early desegregation remedy.
• ADDENDUM: Speaks directly to the complaint about racial classification as political/identity signaling prominent in the immodesty-panic article, since race-based placement is a formalized version of the same classifying impulse.