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Why is it wrong? Becasue: 1. that is the traditional way - either go to your nearby school, or get tested and go to a merit-based school. 2. busing in students from outside become unfair because it is hard to find a fair process that can determine who and how many to be bused in. 3. I see no reason to deliberately ask students to spend more time on school buses just because someone wants to use them as a way to achieve "diversity" in a school that they originally do not belong to.[/quote]

1.  I don't think "this is the way things have always been" has ever been a convincing argument.
2. Unfair to whom?  Also, what you're against a process that serves the greater goal of diversity because you're not sure how the logistics would be worked out?
3. Many families will gladly put their kids on a bus for a chance to attend a school with better resources and higher test scores.

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1. it is not by itself. But usually it does take more effort and more reasons to change the norm than to follow the norm. Here I do not see the reasons as strong enough.
2. Unfair to whom? It it benefits no one, then no need to discuss. If you believe it clearly benefits certain kids, then how about people outside of that group? How do you choose that group. For me how to choose "who" get bused in would be the first thing to worry about. Also, logistics are not trivial issues. If you only buses in a few, that is not a problem since there are always "exceptions" to norms. But if you want to bus in a considerable number of kids, and you are telling people it does not matter if the logistics would work out?

3. So now you clearly admit, that these kids being bused in get benefits. Would it be fair to other kids that do not?

Again, if you spend your money on the buses, on the additional costs (maybe not that much, because one can always transfer the money given to the original school which those kids belong to, to the school you want them to be bused into), etc., I don't really have much problem with that. But if you want public money to be spent on this, I do oppose.
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