Under federal anti-discrimination laws and its own regulatory Code, the Internal Revenue Service was supposed to deny tax exempt status to racially discriminatory private schools in school districts subject to court-ordered desegregation. Plaintiffs were parents of black public school students who alleged that the tax exemption allowed tax-deductible contributions supporting such schools, attracting white students out of the public schools, and thus thwarting federal school integration policy. The children of these plaintiffs had not themselves applied for admission to the schools that discriminated against black children. Do their parents have standing to sue for enforcement of federal law against the private schools? Why or why not?

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