school busing

     You might read in an old news article that people once argued about school busing--and they did. They weren't arguing about whether kids should take the bus to school or walk, however. They were arguing about whether or not kids should be bused to different school districts as a means of making unequal schools "fair". First they decided that since the city schools were terrible, compared to some of the suburban schools, that they would bus a few city school students to the suburbs to attend school. This was done as a sort of a lottery--the way people are "chosen" to go to charter schools now.  Instead of improving the schools, everyone in the worst schools might have a chance to attend school someplace else. Most of the parents in the suburban school districts didn't really have a lot to say about busing a few students from the city to their schools. When some districts, in the name of "fairness "decided it would be a good idea to bus a few of the suburban kids into the city schools, they had a lot to say. In a word, they said no.