[AT7Saluki]

More attempted thwarting of the will of the people. The school board members ran on and were voted in on this platform.

[Hodar]

So, the debate, the ability to freely exchange ideas - is now prohibited by the ‘tolerant elite’?

[swain_forkbeard]

I can’t imagine having my kids bussed halfway across the county to attend a public school. Nuts.

[Constitution Day]

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[Hatteras]

Interesting that the Mayor of Raleigh, Meeker, has weighed in on the issue against the majority conservative school board’s decision in the name of Martin Luther King.

BTW, Meeker’s wife just happens to be one of the dissenting liberal school board members.

[albie]

This bussing happened in Alexandria, VA in the 70’s. My parents rented in the west end (better schools) just so I go to them. They couldn’t afford to buy there. Then they bussed half of the mostly black kids from downtown to the west end and vice versa.

Result? Race riots on a daily basis. Police there everyday. Newspapers, TV etc. I got shipped to a private military acadamy because I couldn’t walk home without trouble. You were scared to leave the school.

Property values in the west end went down big time.

[RJR_fan]

Should I send the following letter to the editor of the Snooze and Disturber?

A few hundred years ago, John Bunyan could get away with giving his fictional characters names that reflected their characters. Would that technique work today? Suppose a novelist created an angry class warrior named Jealous, who rides into the little town Alert to berate parents for -- loving their children. For wanting to be close to them during the day. For wanting to work with their schools to provide the best possible opportunities for their children. In this little fable, Mr. Jealous reviles the parents who love their children and their hoods and the schools in the hoods. No, the cornily-named Mr. Jealous screams, hood and home and school must be divorced, driven asunder on dingy yellow cattle cars, in the same of some perceived superior good. Perhaps in the name of a hypothetical D__e__ity whose name is found by inserting the letters _iv_rs_ _ _. Something more important than family. Something more important than neighborhood. Something far more important than those sacrificial pawns, the children of little town Alert.

Such a novelist would be panned by the critics and hooted off the stage. Especially if, in this fable, the real problem was something else -- perhaps, widespread bastardy in the (complaining) population.

Now, is it "fair" for privileged kids to get so far ahead of those who do not have a daddy who loved their mommy enough to marry her? Probably not, but life isn't fair, and impulsive acts do have life-long consequences.

Should the good people in little town Alert now do something, in the name of equality, to handicap those with such an egregious advantage? Or, should they try to help the underclass build happy, intact, two-parent, families? Let's see -- kneecap the strong? Or help the weak? What would Jesus do? What would Jealous do? Which is the wisest course?

Perhaps, if this imaginary Mr. Jealous, this outsider with a grudge, brought a passion to promote marriage among the people he claims to speak for, little town Alert could take seriously his suggestions on how to improve their schools.

[Tanniker Smith]

Comedian Stephen Colbert, of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, devoted five minutes to mocking the school board's assignment policies and one of its members.

Don't they teach anything in Journalism classes anymore?

Alleged comedian Stephen Colbert ...

[Vinnie]

Bussing for racial diversity was killed.

So they changed to name and continue the same policy.

The NAACP and libs demonstrate practically every school board meeting.

Now they are threatening to remove accreditation of all Wake Co. schools unless the board relents and approves bussing for racial diversity again.

[dfwgator]

And they wonder why “White Flight” occurs.