(U.S. Supreme) Court Allows Busing Program to End

AP ^ | April 15, 2002, 11:32 AM EDT | ANNE GEARAN

[smith288]

* Turned down an appeal from a California hospital that fired a woman whose sometimes hours-long primping rituals repeatedly made her late. The woman had won a lower court judgment giving her protection under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

She had better be wheelchair bound or have a mental problem otherwise this is rediculous.

[Dog Gone]

Busing was a stupid liberal policy that never worked as intended. It's a perfect example of liberal solutions requiring the heavy hand of government.

[Constitution Day]

The court did not comment in turning away an appeal from black parents in Charlotte, N.C., who wanted to continue the desegregation program begun in 1969. The court also rejected a related lawsuit from white parents, who won a lower court order ending the busing program. They wanted the high court to order the school system to pay their lawyers' fees.

NC Ping!

[Sandy]

Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

[smith288]

That should have been in the article...i was about to get lost in my irritation of "primping" women everywhere.

[monkeyshine]

Schools should not be segregated by law. But neighborhoods simply are, often by choice. Sending kids around on busses simply to diversify them by skin color is a rediculous waste of time and money. It's also a tacit admission that schools in poorer or non-white neighborhoods are not as good as those in white neighborhoods, indicating a problem with the administration of the school and the district.

I was bussed in the 4th and 5th grades, mandated by the courts. Many of the other kids in my neighborhood had parents active in the school PTA, and their kids did not get bussed. They opened a special "adjunct" for "advanced" students and got their kids into that program. Coincidence? Not at all. It was cronyism at it's finest. But my mom was too busy working to raise 2 kids to get involved in the PTA. It didn't hurt me to get bussed, but it was a waste of the school districts money and time (2 hours a day on a bus). In high school, we had 1000 kids bussed into my school from less afluent neighborhoods. All I know is that it wasn't the "locals" who put gang graffitti on the walls, shot at someone on campus, or won our district football championship and state sprinting and relay championships.

[dead]

* Turned down an appeal from a California hospital that fired a woman whose sometimes hours-long primping rituals repeatedly made her late. The woman had won a lower court judgment giving her protection under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

She’s so ugly, it’s considered a disability!

Man, Chelsea’s practically a parapalegic.

[monkeyshine]

I can't believe they didn't overturn that one. What a joke. I have a disability too! I am often late for work because I need to drink more coffee, smoke another cigarette, and freep a little while longer!

[justshutupandtakeit]

Come on be fair now. With a bag on her head Chelsea isn't that bad.

[Clemenza]

On Long Island, bussing was blocked for most districts due to backroom political dealing. As a result, I went to an elementary school from 1981-1988 that was 98% white (2% being Asian), despite the fact that there was a sizeable black population a few miles down the road. So much for liberal New York.

[Baseballguy]

That is more news than the Charlotte busing issue. Just think I have grooming requirments at work now I can be late cause I have to be clean shaved.

[foreverfree]

bump

[KC_Conspirator]

Busing was a stupid liberal policy that never worked as intended.

Thats because the premises of forced busing were wrong in the first place. Liberals in the 60's began to formulate theories on why schools were becoming more "segregated" due to more blacks attending certain schools and more whites attending others. Also accompanying this change was a large and growing gap in test and achievement scores. So naturally instead of blaming falling test scores on lousy liberal policies in the inner city schools, they blamed it on "racism" of the suburbs. So the conclusion liberals came to is that if black and whites were bused around the city so that schools would be less segregated, then black test and achievement scores would rise.

Think about that. That premise is so wrong and rascist its amazing that common sense did not prevail. So in the words of Clarence Thomas, liberals equated being black with being inferior. Thats so wrong.

[OldFriend]

Of all the misbegotten misguided wasteful ideas ever to be promulgated on the citizenry, bussing has to be the absolute worst! The unintended consequences are too numerous to mention. I won't even say REST IN PEACE.......it was an idea from hell.

[wardaddy]

Charlotte was not the first. Jackson Miss underwent Federal Court ordered busing during Christmas break in 1969. I was there in the 7th grade at Hardy Junior High. It ruined the public schools in Jackson which are now beyond repair. Before that, it had been freedom of choice schools. Anyone remember that term before the baby killers appropriated it?

[JAWs]

Sounds like she was obsessive-compulsive. That is a mental problem.

[Future Snake Eater]

Well, thank God for this. Busing was destroying my high school--rapidly. Maybe there's hope for NC after all...