I was in high school when they cranked up the court ordered school busing in most of urban America. This was a death blow that no one ever talks about.
Everybody of every color and stripe got the hell out of cities with court ordered school busing. The diaspora was enormous and was certainly a large contributor to the rise of burb living and the decline of US cities. We even dealt with it with our own kids, we always had to be mindful that our address was not in a forced busing school district.
It finally ended in the Dallas Independent School District in the late 1990's when DISD was declared integrated with a 92% minority student body/
Funny isn't it that nobody ever talks about 40 years of forced school busing contributing to the crash of American cities. I lived through all of it and it was hugely destructive.
Governments would redistrict children and bus them from school district A into school district B for the purposes of "desegregation."
It's "forced" in the sense that children were forced to go to farther away (and often much shittier) schools and probably didn't have a way to get there OTHER than being bussed, since it would be too far to walk. But no, you were not actually forced to ride a bus, you could get to school any way you wished.
I always thought it went the other way - that black kids from the poorer neighbourhoods were being bused to white neighbourhoods/better schools, which was leading to the inner-city schools just becoming that much worse, while also turning the receiving schools to crap. Did the flow reverse at some point?
In some places it went both ways. If they're bring in 50 black kids while the school is at capacity then 50 White kids have to be bused somewhere else.
I was in high school when they cranked up the court ordered school busing in most of urban America. This was a death blow that no one ever talks about.
Everybody of every color and stripe got the hell out of cities with court ordered school busing. The diaspora was enormous and was certainly a large contributor to the rise of burb living and the decline of US cities. We even dealt with it with our own kids, we always had to be mindful that our address was not in a forced busing school district.
It finally ended in the Dallas Independent School District in the late 1990's when DISD was declared integrated with a 92% minority student body/
Funny isn't it that nobody ever talks about 40 years of forced school busing contributing to the crash of American cities. I lived through all of it and it was hugely destructive.
Governments would redistrict children and bus them from school district A into school district B for the purposes of "desegregation."
It's "forced" in the sense that children were forced to go to farther away (and often much shittier) schools and probably didn't have a way to get there OTHER than being bussed, since it would be too far to walk. But no, you were not actually forced to ride a bus, you could get to school any way you wished.
I always thought it went the other way - that black kids from the poorer neighbourhoods were being bused to white neighbourhoods/better schools, which was leading to the inner-city schools just becoming that much worse, while also turning the receiving schools to crap. Did the flow reverse at some point?
In some places it went both ways. If they're bring in 50 black kids while the school is at capacity then 50 White kids have to be bused somewhere else.