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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Choice. If you want to bus your kid, great. [/quote]

Bingo. Please look at the history of forced busing in the 70s.  It was an absolute disaster everywhere it was tried. It would be especially problematic in our highly congested county. Just send kids to schools in their neighborhoods.[/quote]
Disaster for whom?

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/7/1/21121022/did-busing-for-school-desegregation-succeed-here-s-what-research-says/

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Research shows that school desegregation — often including “busing” — helped black students in the long run.
To isolate the impact of court-ordered school integration in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, Johnson used two strategies. First, he compared students in the same school district right before and after court-ordered integration was put in place. Second, he compared pairs of siblings, when one went to integrated schools but the other didn’t.

His conclusions were similar: integration helped black students academically and into adulthood.

The effects were quite large: going to integrated schools for an additional five years caused high school graduation rates to jump by nearly 15 percentage points and reduced the likelihood of living in poverty by 11 percentage points.

In a follow-up analysis, Johnson found that these benefits extended to the next generation. The children of those who attended integrated schools had higher test scores and were more likely to attend college, too.

Johnson’s work is consistent with other research. Another national paper found that school desegregation efforts in the ‘70s reduced the dropout rate among black students, though the effect was smaller than Johnson’s estimate. A study focusing on Louisiana between 1965 and 1970 found that integration dramatically boosted black students’ chances of graduating high school.

Why did school integration make such a difference? Johnson and others show that black students ended up attending much better resourced schools with smaller class sizes.

“Court-ordered desegregation that led to larger improvements in school quality resulted in more beneficial educational, economic, and health outcomes in adulthood for blacks who grew up in those court-ordered desegregation districts,” Johnson concludes.[/quote]

Just to be 100% clear - many of those who were bussed from more failing schools to integrate schools had significantly better educational outcomes.

You can note that it was stopped and failed for many reasons, including but not limited to white flight and outright racism, but it is 100% incorrect, ahistorical and short sighted to say it as a failure for everyone involved.

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