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I like the movie fine.

I can also see why liberals like it.

I went to the same school as Bourbon when it was founded and I am not a Preppie. Bourbon is 2nd generation post busing. They did this in Jackson...the first metro area btw at Christmas break in 69. SCOTUS pushed it and gave them 2 weeks to submit literally. Oddly unlike Boston some years later, there was no violence even though the Jackson State riots took place only about a mile from my newly foricbly integrated Jr High.

It should be noted that prior to the busing, it was school choice. We had a number of blacks already. Whites could attend black schools too.

Today, the schools are a zoo...complete and utter decay. I have cousins who have tried to teach there, it's simply too dangerous and pandemonium.

Forced Busing in Jackson Mississippi killed the public school system....a hard death too I might add.

Until 1985ish some public schools in Jackson were rather decent. Then the brilliant educators at Central Office decided to implement an experiment intended to improve the level of education that ALL JPS students receive. It was called CBOK, the Common Body of Knowledge. All 11th grade history teachers in JPS were given the exact same learning objectives, and they were ordered to teach them. Multiple choice tests were made by committees of teachers, and all 11th grade history students took them until they passed. (or that was the way it was supposed to work.) For really bright students, school became a vacation. AP classes did not have CBOK curricula, but there were only a few AP classes offered at my high school. Honors classes had the same exact curricula as regular classes, and students rebelled if the teacher(s) tried to teach them any more than CBOK required. (really. i had a teacher who tried to give us more to do, but a bunch of parents said their children did not have to do the extra and could not be graded on the extra stuff.)

I vaguely recall stories of what happened in the public schools right after forced busing began. There were teenagers carrying chains and other such stuff around my high school. My neighbors' removed their children at that time and sent them to private schools. By the time my brothers and I started school, violence had subsided, and the public schools were fine. At least in my neighborhood. I do not think that my best friend, who went to JP, received a superior education at all. She was more prepared for the country club life. I have been impressed with what I have heard about JP in recent years.

You are so OLD! Just kidding.