Back in the early eighties in Toledo,Ohio, the public schools started busing kids from predominately black areas of the city to schools in predominately white areas of the city.
The only good thing I noticed about it was that suddenly our Jr. high school football team got two 16 year old wide receivers and a 17 year old tight end when most of the other kids in our school football league were only 13-14 years old. Since those three black dudes had to be held back a couple of grades due to their poor academic skills, (one of them was totally illiterate but he could catch a ball like a brick mason catching a brick) they were in Jr. high school when they should have been JV or senior high school players. And our coach used that age gap to our advantage. It opened up our passing game.
However, there was also negative effects that resulted from the desegregation busing program. The curriculum in the classrooms had to be "dumbed down" to accommodate the influx of unintelligent black students. For example, advanced classes about physics, geometry and chemistry had to be taken off the curriculum to accommodate the need for basic arithmetic (2+2=4), basic science, and basic spelling classes that most of us white kids had already learned before the desegregation busing program.
And when an exceptional black kid did happen the excel academically, he was derided by his black peers for "acting white". I remember one black kid who got beat up by his black classmates for merely choosing to take an algebra class. Then he got beat up by other blacks because he made the honor roll. They beat him up for "acing white" again . So did nearly every other black dude who got good grades. And some black girls too. I saw a girl get stabbed by another girl for acing a spelling test. Said she was "messin' up da curb". That's a fucked-up black cultural phenomena.
Also, I strongly suspect that a lot of that hateful sentiment was an indirect result of desegregation busing. Because of the very stark, obvious and significant lower average intelligence level of blacks when compared to whites, many schools started grading student performance on "the curve" very quickly after the desegregation busing program commenced.
I also think that the desegregation busing program wastes fuel by causing unnecessary road traffic disruptions. Some of those school buses will literally stop at every corner on a street during parts of their route, with dozens of vehicles that are also burning fuel waiting for them. And most of those school buses are NOT equipped with zero emissions diesel systems.
/rant
The only good thing I noticed about it was that suddenly our Jr. high school football team got two 16 year old wide receivers and a 17 year old tight end when most of the other kids in our school football league were only 13-14 years old. Since those three black dudes had to be held back a couple of grades due to their poor academic skills, (one of them was totally illiterate but he could catch a ball like a brick mason catching a brick) they were in Jr. high school when they should have been JV or senior high school players. And our coach used that age gap to our advantage. It opened up our passing game.
However, there was also negative effects that resulted from the desegregation busing program. The curriculum in the classrooms had to be "dumbed down" to accommodate the influx of unintelligent black students. For example, advanced classes about physics, geometry and chemistry had to be taken off the curriculum to accommodate the need for basic arithmetic (2+2=4), basic science, and basic spelling classes that most of us white kids had already learned before the desegregation busing program.
And when an exceptional black kid did happen the excel academically, he was derided by his black peers for "acting white". I remember one black kid who got beat up by his black classmates for merely choosing to take an algebra class. Then he got beat up by other blacks because he made the honor roll. They beat him up for "acing white" again . So did nearly every other black dude who got good grades. And some black girls too. I saw a girl get stabbed by another girl for acing a spelling test. Said she was "messin' up da curb". That's a fucked-up black cultural phenomena.
Also, I strongly suspect that a lot of that hateful sentiment was an indirect result of desegregation busing. Because of the very stark, obvious and significant lower average intelligence level of blacks when compared to whites, many schools started grading student performance on "the curve" very quickly after the desegregation busing program commenced.
I also think that the desegregation busing program wastes fuel by causing unnecessary road traffic disruptions. Some of those school buses will literally stop at every corner on a street during parts of their route, with dozens of vehicles that are also burning fuel waiting for them. And most of those school buses are NOT equipped with zero emissions diesel systems.
/rant