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Vanity: Forced busing for school desegregation?

Posted on 06/28/2019 1:08:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

My memory on forced busing for school desegregation is a bit foggy, but I believe this big government statist social experiment was unpopular among parents (black and white) of children forced to be bused sometimes miles away to unfamiliar schools and neighborhoods. I don't think it lasted very long, nor was it successful, and may have eventually been ruled unconstitutional.

Guess it was good for little Kamala, though.

Anyone remember the details of this program?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: integration; segregation
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To: Ohioan

Yes, if only they could see the truth and “Walk Away.”


21 posted on 06/28/2019 1:51:23 PM PDT by rightazrain ("Suppose you were an idiot...suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself" -Mark Twain)
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To: lastchance

economics is the new standard to make sure schools don’t become segregated again


What do you mean?


22 posted on 06/28/2019 2:00:16 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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Bump


23 posted on 06/28/2019 2:03:55 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Jim Robinson

It lasted long here in NC and affected the Charlotte-Mecklinburg school system for years.


24 posted on 06/28/2019 2:08:51 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also. Wall)
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To: Jim Robinson

I notice the fake news is all atwitter today over Kneepads defense of bussing last night. They obviously think she really scored big. Shows how out of touch these people are. Normal people HATE bussing. Even lots of black people hate bussing.
She may have damaged Biden but I don’t think she helped herself nearly as much as the fake news thinks she did.


25 posted on 06/28/2019 2:20:47 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
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To: Jim Robinson

Yes , 1974. Hanford CA.

My brothers(2) and sister(1) in elementary school were forced to attend an elementary school across town by bus. Our nearest elementary school was 5 blocks from home, yet we were forced to attend a school that was by all standards the worst in town. The clientele of said school was filed with the didndonuffins and ESL of town.
Fond memories of being whipped by said didndonuffins,with plastic beaded jump ropes “because of slavery” and it was my fault. Told that Chicanos would rule us. Found out multicultural day was for everyone else but us poor white kids.

Fond memories


26 posted on 06/28/2019 2:29:49 PM PDT by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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To: Jim Robinson

It was very unpopular. I don’t see how forced integration is much better than forced segregation. And yet progressives are totally against school choice/vouchers.


27 posted on 06/28/2019 2:31:18 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Jim Robinson

My cub was about to enter kindergarten when that forced busing was started in the area where we lived-near the AFB where my husband was stationed because it was close, and the duplex we rented was nice and affordable-but we scraped up just enough money to buy a little fixer-upper house out in the boonies, packed up, moved and enrolled the cub in the nearest Catholic school at the beginning of the school year-it was a 25+ mile commute to the Base for hubby and a 20 mile one to work for me, not counting picking up the cub at school-worth it to keep our kid out of the busing BS-so I guess we were part of the white flight out of the city...


28 posted on 06/28/2019 2:38:15 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: sparklite2

Instead of using the race of students to make sure the schools reflect the population of the county they use family income.


29 posted on 06/28/2019 2:53:15 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

I’m surprised they got away with it.
But good for them.


30 posted on 06/28/2019 2:55:37 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Jim Robinson
It lasted and led directly to the massive segregation among cultures that now exists in every state... Destruction of children's feelings of belonging to a neighborhood or town were the ONLY goal of busing...
Sort of like, even today, the primary goal of rapid transit systems is to destroy, culturally, suburban areas that still manage a semblance of being an stereotypical safe American community...

My kids lived 150 yards from the elementary school that was the reason we bought the house... The middle school was about 400 yards in the other direction on the same street... The high school was about 3/4 mile walk away...
Life was good...

Then the black robed terrorists stepped in... My kids were going to be bused all the way (16-miles) to the edges of DC...
However, my kids never again attended a government school... The busing lasted, in some places, until a few years ago... The results will last forever... Government schools, wherever they are, are simply institutions of morons creating new morons... The black robes attained their goal of creating a low-IQ caste of serfs who have been, and will continue to be, easily controlled and manipulated...

31 posted on 06/28/2019 3:07:38 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Jim Robinson

Just worried about it initially, but it never really took off. Parents would move instead of having their children bussed.


32 posted on 06/28/2019 3:16:11 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: nwrep; Spruce

A lot of people have the same story as Spruce. I went to a high minority middle school, it was pretty bad. And now I hear that I owe them money for reparations. I was hoping beating me up in middle school would be enough.


33 posted on 06/28/2019 3:25:50 PM PDT by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging.)
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To: Jim Robinson

It tore apart my school, and, that semester, the LAUSD teachers went on strike. My mother moved me out of there, though she didn’t say why and I resented it. Had she simply been truthful, things would have gone better.


34 posted on 06/28/2019 3:37:22 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Jim Robinson

Taking black kids out of neighborhood schools to places where they would have to wake up earlier and be farther away from what would quickly become less involved parents was not a win for those kids.

I was always taught that Mr Brown she’s so his child could go to a neighborhood school. Busing kids across town wasn’t his idea.


35 posted on 06/28/2019 3:45:23 PM PDT by rwilson99 (How exactly would John 3:16 not apply to Mary?)
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To: rwilson99

Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations, saying that black kids had to be around white kids to be successful.


36 posted on 06/28/2019 3:46:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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When Jimmy Carter campaigned for Gov of GA, he campaigned against forced busing.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/what-nevertrump-can-learn-from-anybody-but-carter-213860


37 posted on 06/28/2019 3:52:24 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: sparklite2

I am not sure but I think even though we are no longer under a court order the school district is still subject to review if somebody complains the schools are not properly integrated. It is not so much of a problem now since Port St. Lucie is a lot more racially mixed then it used to be. That is where the majority of the county population is.


38 posted on 06/28/2019 4:22:15 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

Can you imagine, for instance, Mississippi populating
their public schools based on the incomes of the families?
It would be segregation by other means and banned by the feds.


39 posted on 06/28/2019 4:33:49 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Chaos and rioting in Boston.


40 posted on 06/28/2019 4:36:09 PM PDT by Mears
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