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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Originally grew up in Delaware during the years with all of the busing that Biden is now in trouble for.

Busing in DE completely ruined the entire DE public school system.  Why do you think DE has such low home values for being in such a prime location on the East Coast?  It's because they're public schools are horrendous.  DE has for years had one of the highest rates of enrollment in private schools per capita in the country.

Rather than being able to go to neighborhood school, kids in DE would routinely have to be bused for hours all across the state to desegregate.  This day in age, isn't burning fossil fuels supposed to be a no-no?  Kids in DE weren't allowed to walk down the street to go to school, they had to get up at 5:20 AM in my day to catch buses to make it to school on time.

And what has happened years later in DE?  Everyone realized how stupid busing was, and DE has now been allowed to go back to community based schools where kids can once again go back to being able to walk to school. But the damage has already been done.  DE public schools are in trouble.  Busing has done nothing over the years to improve DE's public schooling system and educational outcomes.  Everything just got really mediocre-to-terrible, and its what is going to come to Howard and Montgomery County.

Check out these excellent articles and stories of what happened in Delaware:

https://whyy.org/articles/mass-exodus-students-costing-delaware-school-district-taxpayers/

Also I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this history piece on schools, busing and desegregation initiatives in DE.  It's a history that people have largely ignored and forgotten altogteher, because all they can focus on are lazy arguments and discussion about race and equality.

https://www.hockessincommunitynews.com/article/20081021/NEWS/310219952

People forget that minority communities themselves were initially against busing and it ruined schools were minorities were the majority of students and where minorities were obtaining power to run the schools.

Everything falls though to the argument of an idolized and fanciful vision for diversity.  [/quote]

DE also has incredibly low property taxes which fund the public schools. Big differences between DE and the other schools in mid atlantic[/quote]

+1 DE gets what it pays for. [/quote]

Well, since there's absolutely no correlation between per-child spending and performance, perhaps they're just being fiscally prudent.[/quote]

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