Many, many moons ago (late ‘70s), NYC decided that instead of busing the black kids to schools in white neighborhoods, they would begin busing the white kids to schools in the black neighborhoods.
Well...they decided to start with my neighborhood, one of the wealthiest in NYC, and send us to a school that had a grand total of 3 other white kids in it.
Yeah, that didn’t work out so well for them. The families in our neighborhood promptly began pulling their kids out of the public schools and began sending them to Catholic and other private schools.
SO many families did that, that soon there weren’t enough kids to bus into the black neighborhood schools and they dropped the plan. Some parents put their kids back in the public system, but most did not.
I suspect something similar will happen here, but the White Guilt is MUCH stronger now than it was in the late 1970s, so I could be wrong.
Regards,
Thanks for the mention of what took place back in the day.
I agree with your take on things. It would seem to me to be the obvious outcome, as mentioned earlier.
Diversity is not the be-all end-all of public perception.
My 1500 or so high school had one black guy. He was a great guy. Everyone liked him.
I have a decent healthy respect for Blacks. It didn’t take me being surrounded by them to develop that respect.
Did wonders for the perpetuating the Catholic tradition in Boston - not.
The archbishop at the time wanted to be cool, and get invited to all the liberal parties by support and sacrificing the offspring of his flock to the dumbing down and destruction of the public schools.
Happened to me in 1969 in Queens. The city was already busing loads of black children into the little public school in our neighborhood. I went to the Catholic school down the street.
That year they chose a small portion of kids from my neighborhood to take the subway to the all black public high school in East NY. I was on the list. I was so happy that I made it into the Catholic high school in Rockaway and that my father was able to afford it.
My neighborhood diversity in the 70’s was 50/50 but the public schools were horrible. My parents fortunately sent me to Catholic middle school, age 10 to 14. I was the only non-Catholic student in the school. And extremely shy. It wasn’t a walk in the park but much preferable to public school.Fast forward to today and that same Catholic school, plus the few remaining ones still operating, are mostly filled with minorities. Most white Libs won’t send their kids to religious schools. Minorities get tuition breaks. I predict 50% won’t care about this plan and the other still have Prep/Private schools as an option.