Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The busing issue is based on one unavoidable fact. [View all]emmaverybo
(8,147 posts)education as well as fix, sometimes literally, years of neglect and inequality. This might have
meant building new schools, attracting better-trained and diverse teachers, offering a wider range of educational and enrichment programs, filling staff shortages, after-school programs, and student services.
I dont know if forced busing, until later in its implementation, actually was a vehicle for greater
social justice or integration. Many other ways from inter-mural sports to creative programs in which students from different areas could come together to produce plays or make music, debates etc., could have been effective in modeling an integrated society. We are, as a nation, still not
fully integrated, despite there being more, though not enough, equal opportunity.
Magnet schools have done a good job.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden