OK, let me get this straight: free citizens exercising their right to live wherever they chose and that act was being made ILLEGAL?!?!? What ‘genius’ judge tried to force people to live where they no longer wanted??? I don’t remember that bit from the failed desegregation ruling and subsequent bussing disaster in Dallas. I was just 5 yrs old when we left Dallas and, of course, paid no attention to the news. In the end, white families left Dallas in large numbers and the DISD schools began their rapid slide into the toilet. Not just the schools but the city as a whole.
RIP, Dallas.
the nano-second a bussing order would hit a neighborhood all the parents would put their houses up for sale. Judges went frantic with efforts to circumvent white flight. I think NJ even banned real estate signs then changed to have them be tiny postcard sized signs.
they knew they could not stop so they tried to manipulate.
some school disctricts went so far as to object to zoning changes to prevent competing private schools.