(01-28-2018 10:23 PM)BinghamptonNed Wrote:  

(01-28-2018 04:47 PM)Latilleon Wrote:  

(01-28-2018 10:17 AM)BinghamptonNed Wrote:  so you think busing was a good idea?

Didn't read what I wrote?

(01-26-2018 11:56 AM)Latilleon Wrote:  What was wrong with the busing plan? In my personal opinion, it hurt in two ways as the solution to ending segregation. Firstly, it took black kids from their neighborhood schools which had the problem of being underfunded and didn't provide the quality education that was given in white community schools. In theory you were sending kids to better schools instead of making their schools better. By taking kids from their communities, you had the effect of taking community pride away and neighborhood participation in the educational process. If your community is seven miles from the school the community's children go to, will people from the neighborhood go to football games, carnivals, and Honor Society ceremonies? The other side of it was causing white people to leave the schools where black children were going to be bused. This is why there was "white flight."

What's wrong with the busing plan? If the objective was to get diverse student bodies, why weren't white kids bused to schools in black neighborhoods?

As the solution for ending segregation, I don't think busing was a good idea. And I was a student who benefited from busing.

You are right it was a terrible idea, the people that came up with it should have lost their jobs and never have a position in "public service" ever again.

The solution was to equalize all schools and to integrate the schools by drawing new lines that balance the races as much as possible while keeping neighborhood-ish schools, busing kids across town was a ludicrous idea. Not allowing an american citizen to attend a school based on their race or ethnicity is insane