Oh Yeah, it makes tons of sense.
Think how much money would be available for tutoring, etc. if we could just stop hauling kids all over creation.
More importantly, think how much healthier and happier the children would be if they could attend nearby schools.
I was unaware that the use of busing to achieve “racial balance” was still being practiced.
In California, busing was imposed by judges, but in the 1970’s and 1980’s, many liberals in California sacrificed their political careers on the altar of this practice, because the public would routinely vote busing advocates out of office. That’s what happened to the judge who originally ordered the use of busing to “desegregate” Los Angeles.
When you were a kid there was less traffic, therefor less chance of getting hit by a car while crossing the street. There were also less, at least less obvious, child molesters to harm children on their way to school. I’m with you as far as hating the darn school buses getting in front of me and holding me up.
The only message I get from govt intervention on behalf of minorities is that the minorities involved are critically handicapped and are incapable of surviving off the govt “plantation”.
The monies would have been better spent upgrading/replacing inadequate facilities ("unequal" distribution of funds was one of the rationalized "selling points").
In the early 1970s, an uncle that taught science in a Jr. High, 9th, and maybe 8th grade as well, and the bused-in students knocked the books back to the 4th grade level, shafting the everybody in the process.
In another district, my cousins had to go to a weird schedule because of busing. Either getting to class by 7AM, or having the late schedule going to 4 or 5PM.
There was a time in Nashville back before its city and county governments merged into a “Metro” government that the city schools had no buses. Students walked to school, biked, rode city buses, or were droped off via their parent’s cars or hookups. Nowadays there are fleets of buses for those same schools. Hitler invaded Russia with less vehicles than we waste on idiotic school bussing with insane district lines.
As I always say there is nothing worse for the environment than the Sierra Club and the Greens. Can you imagine them taking on this issue? They don’t object to burning fuels in this case.