I have to chuckle when an official Uptown myth gets punctured — yet it doesn’t seem to matter.

Such is the case with CMS capital needs. Schools Equity Committee chairman Julian Wright pens an op-ed pointing out that, no, there is no pattern of schools with lower-income and minority populations having more school-building needs than the rest of CMS.

After Wright’s column runs — and only after — the Uptown paper of record then prints a correction on the point:

An April 13 editorial misstated a conclusion of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Equity Committee Report. The report does not say that “schools with large concentrations of poor and minority students tend to be more dilapidated than other schools.”

You would think that would retract and retire the entire “equity” argument for and about CMS’ building needs. Nope.

Today the Uptown paper of record is back at it, utterly endorsing the mammoth $620 million school bond request from CMS. It is a request wholly formed and driven by imaginary “equity” worries, not actual needs.

For proof, let’s watch how the Citizens Capital Budget Advisory Committee greets CMS’ request. That panel tries to prioritize capital projects based on what is needed in both new constructions and re-fits measured against what the county can afford.

Not myths.