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When my son was 11 we lived in South Carolina and about a mile from our local good school where he should have gone

But bussing was mandatory via the Supreme Court and my son was choosen as a white student to go to a school out of our district where there was 89% black and 11% white students

so instead of the good school 1 mile away which he had to pass every day in the bus he went 8 miles to another school...

all that year he learned nothing in the academic area

but he did learn to play the saxophone and was in the marching band...

His middle school was the only one chosen in the state to march in the first MLK Day parade in Atlanta that January (Hurrah) and he did end up as the top student in his music class..

His black music instructor told me he was one of the only ones who applied himself..

the only other student who did well was a white girl..

So I had to teach him at home so he could keep up...

When we came to TN the next year it was a good thing I had done so..

The schools here in the 1980s were good schools and better than that good one in SC...

BTW while there was very little money for the SC school there was no end of money for the music department and the band..

everything was paid for

My son got a brand new uniform a brand new sax and a free trip to Atlanta plus other goodies...

He had no problem being the top of his class in all subjects but he didnt learn anything there...

and although I did try to stop them from sending him to the all black school I couldnt change the law...