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To: rarestia
I was a product of the busing craze in the 90s. I was bused from a predominantly white part of the county to a predominantly black part of the county to attend a “magnet school.”

They bused the black kids from the inner city out to the rural schools where I went. They didn't want to be there. They didn't want to ride a bus for an hour each way. And they didn't want to be away from their neighborhood friends.

They tore up our school. They started fights trying to get kicked out of school. It was not a good situation.

50 posted on 07/12/2015 8:36:05 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN; rarestia
"Busing" was the beginning of the end for public education. As you both note, it destroyed the schools that actually worked in both parts of town. Black students and white students both suffered. It caused substantial money to be diverted from paying teachers to buying iron.

The judge who started it all remarked on his death bed that busing was an utter failure and it was the stupidest decision he'd ever made.

Too little, too late. We are living with the consequences of that decision.

56 posted on 07/12/2015 8:50:19 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: DannyTN
They bused the black kids from the inner city out to the...schools where I went...They tore up our school. They started fights trying to get kicked out of school. It was not a good situation.

The same thing happened in the central Ohio public schools in the 70s. They bused black kids from the inner city to our suburban white schools. I saw the first graffiti carved into desks that I'd ever seen. There was other vandalism that I'd never seen before. The black kids just kept to themselves, so if "integration" was the goal here, it blatantly failed.

First, the government wants to control who can work where and under what circumstances. Then they want to control your money in various ways. They want to control your thoughts in retraining you how to think and what to value. But that has not been enough. Now, they want to get right into your immediate environment---your living space--where you go, at least temporarily, to get away from the effects of the former. If people work hard in order to afford housing in a nice, clean, safe neighborhood, why should the government have the right to dump people who are NOT willing to work hard (or work at all) into such neighborhoods to despoil them for all? It seems to me the antithesis of "The American Dream". You make a nice place to live for yourself and your family, and the government dumps the very people you seek to avoid right next door. Your kids get to learn what being beaten up feels like, learn new words you'd rather they didn't, and acquire habits you don't want in your home. The express lane to the ruin of America.

77 posted on 07/12/2015 11:20:58 AM PDT by EinNYC
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