The Joys of Busing, Huh?
American Spectator,
by
William Murchison
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
7/2/2019 12:32:51 PM
As contrived for the apparent purpose of embarrassing Joe Biden, Kamala Harris’ handwringer over racial-balance busing duly titillated the media. Who could suppose there was anything wrong with shipping children miles from their homes to satisfy what a federal judge said was the moral necessity of achieving a classroom mixture of black faces and white faces? And Biden had fought it at the federal level? The Homeric narrative thus organized itself around Sen. Harris’ account of “a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/2/2019 12:44:35 PM (No. 112016)
The thing that's changed now from 50 years ago is that now EVERYONE knows it's all a con game. At first, people were willing to grant the possibility that it was sincerely meant to improve the lives of the black children who would at least be exposed to better teachers, schools, and kids more serious about their education. Now we have 50 years of irrefutable evidence that it was all a sham, with miserable results, and intended only as revenge and/or political leverage.
Enough with this patent nonsense.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mseegal 7/2/2019 12:47:00 PM (No. 112018)
I was a little white girl and I rode my bus three hours each morning and three hours each afternoon....six hours a day to go to an all white elementary school. Cry me a river!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
K620 7/2/2019 1:01:11 PM (No. 112032)
Golly that seems like a lot, #2. Just curious, from where to where?
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My wife was bussed from her white neighborhood to a school in a minority neighborhood. The experience gave her a deep-seated “grudge.”
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jerseyden 7/2/2019 1:06:44 PM (No. 112038)
Remember people telling me about 1 week after busing started the kiddies skipped school and wandered neighborhoods stealing anything they could get on the bus for the return trip.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MamaElephant 7/2/2019 2:10:45 PM (No. 112085)
OK - Kamala Harris and I went to school at the same time and in the same state. I was also bused, hours each day to attend a gifted program, at a time when that was a novelty and not every school offered one. Only one school in our district offered such a thing in elementary school. I suspect that Ms. Harris was bused for a similar reason, given that racial integration was not an issued at that time and place. The year is precisely right for the fledgling gifted program in CA, her second grade would have been the same year I started.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/2/2019 3:02:29 PM (No. 112136)
Thing is, it was already reported by several sites that her school was integrated long before she even started attending. She and her staffers are too stupid to grasp that we out here know how to look this stuff up. She has pretty much spent her entire political career lying to her voters, and being a thoroughly nasty and mean woman. I sure do not want that in the WH, not after 8 years of Moochie Obama.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jebediah 7/2/2019 3:08:41 PM (No. 112141)
I remember bussing----viirually everyone hated it! The only ones who didn't were legislators whose kids were not subjected to it. (Just as they are all for single payer medical care, but THEY have a special Congressional plan for life.)
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/2/2019 3:54:16 PM (No. 112184)
In those days it was ok to separate children from their parents at the (school district) border.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Catherine 7/2/2019 4:53:39 PM (No. 112230)
There was a judge in Louisiana who ordered busing in Baton Rouge, He virtually destroyed schools there. Most people didn't want their small children bused an hour and a half, each way, to out of neighborhood schools. The result was an explosion of people moving to a small town next door to Baton Rouge, where kids were allowed to go to neighborhood schools. This busing rule lasted fifty years. Fifty Years. It only ended when the judge retired. Make of that what you will.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bldrrepub 7/2/2019 7:26:44 PM (No. 112336)
This is why almost 50% of Philadelphia school-aged children attended Catholic Schools in the late 70s. Biden's Wilmington, DE experienced similar rancor.
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I remember the 'discord' over busing but millennials and illegals don't. Conservatives are better prepared to stand against it than they were 50 years ago.