[smith288]

* Turned down an appeal from a California hospital that fired a woman whose sometimes hours-long primping rituals repeatedly made her late. The woman had won a lower court judgment giving her protection under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

She had better be wheelchair bound or have a mental problem otherwise this is rediculous.

[Dog Gone]

Busing was a stupid liberal policy that never worked as intended. It's a perfect example of liberal solutions requiring the heavy hand of government.

[monkeyshine]

Schools should not be segregated by law. But neighborhoods simply are, often by choice. Sending kids around on busses simply to diversify them by skin color is a rediculous waste of time and money. It's also a tacit admission that schools in poorer or non-white neighborhoods are not as good as those in white neighborhoods, indicating a problem with the administration of the school and the district.

I was bussed in the 4th and 5th grades, mandated by the courts. Many of the other kids in my neighborhood had parents active in the school PTA, and their kids did not get bussed. They opened a special "adjunct" for "advanced" students and got their kids into that program. Coincidence? Not at all. It was cronyism at it's finest. But my mom was too busy working to raise 2 kids to get involved in the PTA. It didn't hurt me to get bussed, but it was a waste of the school districts money and time (2 hours a day on a bus). In high school, we had 1000 kids bussed into my school from less afluent neighborhoods. All I know is that it wasn't the "locals" who put gang graffitti on the walls, shot at someone on campus, or won our district football championship and state sprinting and relay championships.

[foreverfree]

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[OldFriend]

Of all the misbegotten misguided wasteful ideas ever to be promulgated on the citizenry, bussing has to be the absolute worst! The unintended consequences are too numerous to mention. I won't even say REST IN PEACE.......it was an idea from hell.

[wardaddy]

Charlotte was not the first. Jackson Miss underwent Federal Court ordered busing during Christmas break in 1969. I was there in the 7th grade at Hardy Junior High. It ruined the public schools in Jackson which are now beyond repair. Before that, it had been freedom of choice schools. Anyone remember that term before the baby killers appropriated it?