Four Scoops of Not
There’s this boy sitting in the back of Mrs. Jones’ 8th-grade English class. Mrs. Jones is going over the whole notion of the double negative, advising students to avoid it, and one student asks if there’s such a thing as a double positive. Mrs. Jones ponders for a moment, and then says, “No, there’s not,” whereupon the boy in the back makes this insightful remark: “Yeah, right!”
In honor of that boy, this snippet from the Supreme Court’s decision in Keyes v. School District No. 1 (413 U.S. 189, 211):
This is not to say, however, that the prima facie case may not be met by evidence supporting a finding that a lesser degree of segregated schooling in the core city area would not have resulted even if the Board had not acted as it did.
