Should we bring back desegregation busing ?

[Progressivism]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing

And make it so that we can do it across district lines ? I personally think there are better ways to close the achievement gap and end segregation in general, but something still must be done.

[Taverner]

1. If you want to solve that problem, it goes deeper than that...

De-seg bussing just made racist parents mad, so they took their kids out of public school and sent them to Catholic/Fundie schools

Folks who didn't have the money to do such rioted (Boston in the 70's)

If you want to crack that nut, go for the roots, not the leaves

[noiretextatique]

2. busing was not a good idea

in fact, it was an insulting idea, from my experience. i was bused from a middle class black neighborhood to a lower class white, latino, and asian neighborhood. we would have been better off at an all black middle class school. the ridiculous belief at the time was that black people were "culturally deprived" and would somehow magically benefit from being around white people.

[bluestateguy]

3. I really don't think we want to fight those wars of the 1970's and 1980's again.

It enhances racial tensions, divides communities and undermines the notion of the neighborhood school. Nor is it all that popular in minority neighborhoods, and affluent white parents often respond by either moving or putting their kids into private schools.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Segregation by income, not race, is the big problem. nt

[IDFbunny]

5. the schools segregated themselves.

Whites worked harder to get into the advance placement classes and blacks that would have been in AP classes in their own district chose demote themselves to the regular classes. The schools segregated themselves much like prisons do.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. Why would we want to reuse a tool that is clearly flawed and no value added?

Intent was as noble as the process was ineffective.