They started all that forced integration and busing shit just as I was about to start elementary school.
My parents got me and my 11-years-older sister into a private Christian school that same year. Had they not done that, I would have ended up being bussed from a fairly good elementary to one of the worst ones in town. It was a significant sacrifice for them because we were not rich by any means, but to this day I thank them for it.
In later years I got into an argument with my mom about school, and I still remember her words: "If we didn't care about you and your education, we'd buy you a $10 switchblade and send you to XXXXXX (shitty dangerous public high school in the city where I grew up).
They started all that forced integration and busing shit just as I was about to start elementary school.
My parents got me and my 11-years-older sister into a private Christian school that same year. Had they not done that, I would have ended up being bussed from a fairly good elementary to one of the worst ones in town. It was a significant sacrifice for them because we were not rich by any means, but to this day I thank them for it.
In later years I got into an argument with my mom about school, and I still remember her words: "If we didn't care about you and your education, we'd buy you a $10 switchblade and send you to XXXXXX (shitty dangerous public high school in the city where I grew up).
Fuck busing.
I had some kid pull a gun on me in the "diverse" junior high school I was forced into. Dozens of other similar incidents I witnessed.