The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston. (Image via Courthouse News) (CN) — Seeing nothing wrong in the mere awareness of how new admission criteria could alter the racial makeup of a student body, a federal judge on Thursday upheld changes for the 2021-22 school year at Boston’s elite public high schools. “Viewing everything through the prism of race is both myopic and endlessly divisive,” U.S. District Judge William Young wrote in a 48-page ruling released late Thursday evening. “Geographic and socioeconomic diversity are appropriate educational goals in their own right, regardless of race,” the Reagan appointee added.