A Wall Street Journal report on Sunday celebrated an Evanston, Illinois, program through which students can opt-in to racially segregated “affinity classes.” Black-only English? Check. There’s even an AP calculus class for Latino students who, according to Evanston superintendent Marcus Campbell, might feel “anxious” learning integrals alongside their black peers.

This perverse approach to education isn’t illegal, according to the Journal. No, the paper framed this sort of discrimination as a bold, constitutionally kosher effort to boost the performance of minority students: “Federal antidiscrimination laws prevent public schools from mandatorily separating students by race, but education lawyers say optional courses can comply with the law.” …

But the attorneys we spoke with—they did provide their names—were flabbergasted by the notion that black-only courses, even voluntary ones like Evanston’s, would hold up in court.

[That seems especially true after the Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action in admissions at Harvard and North Carolina. The most difficult part of a lawsuit would be to establish standing. Otherwise, the court’s ruling makes pretty clear that it views any kind of race-based separation and consideration with deep skepticism, especially in Chief Justice John Roberts’ simple declaration that the way to end discrimination is to end it entirely. — Ed]