Maryland Patriot
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you know as well as I do that that is not how it worked.Those were the extreme cases which were trumpeted by Conservativesand you think it fair to bus a kid for an hour day when he has a school in walking distance to the house.bussing took kids from decent schools that were paid for by the local taxes and sent them to crap schools.I think the opposition to what bussing was doing would have been well called for. Don't you?
Busing did what it was intended to do...integrate the schools
It was not good for the kids that who's parents chose a nice area to live in so they would have those nicer schools available to them.
and what it ended up doing was bringing the grade point average for many schools down.
In post Civil Rights America, there was still a lot of segregation
Communities would carve up community school districts in much the same way congressional districts are gerrymandered. A school district would be carved out to serve primarily black communities which enabled surrounding white communities to maintain all white schools
The courts did not buy it and ordered busing to ensure integration
I don't.
What really happened was a school district would have four schools. One would be made up of rich white kids, two would be working class kids and the fourth would be black kids
When the courts asked why the schools were like that, the communities replied....that's just the way it worked out
The courts did not buy it and ordered busing until the districts were integrated
or were you not school age during those years that white kids were having their schools stolen from them.