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.
Yup, same thing in 79. Wanted to bus us from Cardozo HS in Bayside to Andrew Jackson HS in Jamaica.
I found this little tidbit about it on Wikipedia:
In 1977, the NAACP sued the Board of Education in Federal District Court for the lack of integration in the school, accusing the Board of intentionally segregating the school “to keep other schools predominantly white.”[6][20][36][37] On May 16, 1978, Judge John Francis Dooling Jr. ordered the Board of Education to create a plan to integrate the school within 45 days of the ruling, to be implemented for the 1978-1979 academic year;[6][38][39][40] this deadline was suspended in June of that year.[40] The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned this decision in April 1979.[6][41]
Regards,
PS: The deadline was suspended because there was almost no one left to bus.