re: #71 Dark_Falcon

Busing was the easier path. Fixing the schools ultimately requires at least partially fixing the culture the student come from. But culture is a very stubborn opponent, and most attempts by politicians to change a culture end in failure. So the politicians take the easy route and hope things get better.

The really right thing to do is often the hard thing. Well that’s why we have a government. To do the hard things that are not commercial. Or personal. They gotta do the big hard things. And when that goes awry, well face it squarely.

That experience taught me my current attitude about the parties and politics. That’s where I got my indy/contrary streak. I was too young to vote or take signatures. But I could stuff envelopes and make phone calls as a participant in the process. Heady stuff at 16 years old in the mid ‘70’s.