re: #151 wrenchwench

I didn’t get bused, but I was in southern California around the same time and earlier.

The only real solution to segregated schools would be to integrate the neighborhoods. That would be hard.

You say they should have fixed the crappy schools. That wasn’t (isn’t) going to happen as long as they were (are) segregated. The crappiness was because of the segregation. You couldn’t leave them segregated and fix them.

A lot of people suffered during the busing efforts. The ones who aren’t white suffered disproportionately before and after, too.

Integrating the neighborhoods wasn’t going to happen, simply because the white populations of cities and suburbs weren’t going to accept it. To many would simply leave and there’d be some other city in another state that would welcome them. The change in culture couldn’t happen quickly because some many were opposed to it and those people’s votes would have shut the change down or they would have left for someplace where they could live as they wanted to live.