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In reply to the discussion: The willful race based destruction of a generation of kids [View all]madville
(7,397 posts)We lived out in the predominantly white suburbs and they bussed us about 15 miles into the city to add some white kids to a middle school that had previously been 90%+ black, driving right by two other middle schools along the way.
In my opinion it was a disaster, there were daily fights, white vs. black brawls involving 100+ people would shut the school down for days at a time, there were close gun shots in the blocks surrounding the school at least weekly, teachers would just tell us to close the windows.
I know the white suburban neighborhood kids I grew up around became the biggest racists you had ever seen within months. Luckily we moved after I had only gone there one year. Interestingly we moved to a rural county with one middle school that was about 50/50 black and white and things were relatively calm because everyone had grown up in the same small town their whole lives.
Elementary school may work better though since the kids are younger. Those were different times also, dropping "rich" white 12-14 year olds into the poorest part of the city back then was definitely the wrong way to do it, things were still segregated within the school.