Has busing succeeded anywhere, succeeded in producing integrated schools, for the long term?
I’ve heard many failures, such as busing being implemented, and far fewer white students than predicted are enrolled in the schools. And this is because many white families either moved out of the district, or put their children in private schools.
In one place, Prince George’s County, Maryland, they saw an embarrassment of busing black students across the county, to attend majority black schools, because so many whites declined to participate in busing..
So we know of failures, but are there any success stories out there? Anywhere? And what makes the liberals who run Howard County schools think they will get better results?
Lived in PG when my kids were young and they went to private. They were reasonably priced.
Another problem in PG county schools was trying to convince parents that their boys had ADD. (More money for the system.)
Sad to hear this happened in Howard. Now Montgomery is considering this. (No surprise.)
Wonder what this will do to property values in MC. Many parents here pick housing based on the schools their kids will attend. I did.
The answer is emphatically "NO"... The government indoctrination centers that replaced the public school system are far more segregated than the schools ever were...
The purpose of busing was not intended to integrate public schools... One of it's main purposes was the complete destruction and elimination of the Nation's public schools... This was fully accomplished with the replacement of the former school system with government child-internment centers with the goal of indoctrinating the governments children with the basic tenets of marxism, decaying morals, and a deep-seated hatred of the U.S. and it's Constitution...
A second important goal of busing was the destruction of the concept of the neighborhood as something to take pride in and have a sense of belonging to it... Demolishing or selling or re-purposing hundreds of neighborhood schools and corralling the children from very wide areas into large, controllable, centralized institutions accomplished that goal...
An additional accomplishment of the second goal above was that busing became so institutionalized and part of American life that there was never a chance that a future generation could rebuild the fallen public school system...
Ultimately, all tyrannical forms of government need poorly educated serfs, hating each other, and relying on handouts from their masters... That was busing's brilliant accomplishment...
This strategy of ascendant socialism through gaining control of the U.S. educational system was conceived by the Fabians in the late 1800's... It was carried out between 1960 and the present with the creation of the department of education, it's takeover of almost every operational detail and education and behavior policy, and busing, the final "nail-in-the-coffin" of the parent's right to educate their children.