Forced busing wasn’t just in Boston. I was sent to inner-city schools in Nashville in the ‘80s due to the court order on forced integration. Ultimately racist (the belief that Black students couldn’t learn unless they were surrounded by Whites) and the very worst sort of social(ist) engineering which had the net result of causing the White middle and working class to abandon urban areas and the public school system (and hence caused a swing to resegregation from all-White to all-Black). Compounding that, the quality of the education deteriorated rapidly from pre-seg standards (especially for Black students).
Rather than attempting a sensible middle ground (such as allowing students regardless of race to attend their neighborhood school and making sure schools regardless of racial makeup received adequate funding) which would’ve been the most peaceful method and allowed integration to have occurred organically, said judges went full-on totalitarian (exemplified by LBJ judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr.), and the end results are readily apparent. A premier example of why federal government intervention often results in disaster of epic proportions.
Yeah, I like my ideas better. It’s been 150 years since the Civil War (allegedly) ended...LOOOONNNNNGGGGGG past time to get rid of the contraband.