It's a non-apology apology

Who's Apologizing Now?

Well....we don't really care that much about the substance of this news item (no, really, we don't).

What caught our eye was the new NON-APOLOGY APOLOGY comment. Very descriptive of so many uses of the sacred apology these days. "It's a non-apology apology," said Coulson, an education history scholar and author of "Market Education: The Unknown History."

We've been noting what we call "drive by" apologies....this is somehow different. This is an apology that turns out to not be an apology. The drive by apology is an apology that is just too casual to be meaningful...kinda like a "throw-away" apology.

Anyway, in Seattle these school officiails are duking it out around comments made on some website about individualism and cultural racism. If you can figure it out. please let us know what the hell they're talking about:
An outpouring of criticism forced Seattle Public Schools on Thursday to pull a Web site that viewed planning for the future, emphasizing individualism and defining standard English as examples of cultural racism.
The message had appeared under an "equity and race relations" section of the district's Web site and was mentioned Thursday in an opinion piece by a Libertarian writer in the Seattle P-I. Criticism of the site has been building in the world of blogs for weeks.
In its place Thursday was a message that the site will be revised to "provide more context to reader around the work that Seattle Public Schools is doing to address institutional racism."