Do you send your kids to private school or did they go to public ? I got bused downtown to Johnson Middle, did a stint at nearby Cameron for the summer, and MLK, Jr. Magnet, all either next door to or near Black housing projects.
My kids go to Oakview...south of Franklin ..Daughters are in college ...both private...one is NY and the other here in Lipscomb
baby is at University of Mommy’s he’s majoring in lap and boobies...
Oakview principal is one of us...a fine lady
I moved you knew that?
Me...I was at ground zero of first major forced busing in 7th grade 69-70 Christmas break at Hardy Jr High in Jackson MS...held us out for an extra week...i can still remember waiting with my daddy at the Clarion Liar docks to see if we were still zoned for Hardy
fed courts ruled to break it up...was freedom of choice prior to that and very segregated...maybe 5% black
after busing and white flight...became 70% black
and was just like this article..fights, rapes(and voluntary gang bangs) in the bathroom, weapons ...you name it baby..wide assed open with 7-9th grade...very very very racial...but still not the hostility I feel today...not even close
my folks put me in private my next year where I stayed till my long haired ganji smoking rebellious arse got kicked out of Jackson Prep and my dad took us to Fairhope AL where i did senior year at local public...a laid back 80% white sorta rural school
Jackson public schools are now 97% black I hear
progress is sure fun...
now you know why we moved out here....even JT Moore ain’t a great middle and my oldest boy has a talent for fisticuffs (it’s genetic) and I don’t want him in 5th grade at 10 fighting 15 year old black 8th grader wolf pack and getting killed over his lunch money
it really galls me..my businesses pay 300K per year in local property taxes ...
I know libs who sent their wimpy kids to Moore and the kids were beat to a pulp and all their crap taken first day...they forked over for Ensworth after all that..lol
I do hear they quit busing though....
folks who live in South Dakota or Kansas here and preach to us down here on this forum simply have no clue what it’s like...but Nashville has less of this than any other 1M plus town in the Southeast
bunch of internet PC crap but here it is anyhow:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jackson+miss+public+schools+desegregated+1969&start=10&sa=N