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Busing was a horrible disaster. I was in 8th grade the first year. All it did was drive the best kids to the private schools and the worst kids drove down the quality of education. Black kids didn't get a better education because white teachers treated them like they did the retarded kids; just pass them along and hope nothing happens. When white kids had low test scores, they were given help. When black kids got low test scores, they were ignored and praised because they didn't cause trouble. One black kid told me that the black kids never brought back signed report cards. It was only required of white kids. When the black kids graduated and couldn't read, their complaints were met with "You got a diploma, the ends justifies the means".

Prior to busing, the black schools didn't have any problems because all the kids knew they would be hanging tobacco if they caused any trouble. After 12 years of age, you were not required to be in school and the school wouldn't hesitate to toss you out. Same with the white schools. They bumped the age to 16 so the classes would have to dumb down to the level of the slowest kids because the administrators assumed that the black kids couldn't keep up with the white kids. The black kids used to laugh because the teachers at the black school knew "Trog" was retarded but the white teachers at the busing school had no idea. They just thought he was black. Geez. What a mess.

What a mess.

The standards have gotten increasingly lower. Less is required by less competent personnel. Many teachers who would have been good for education have left, burned out by paperwork, student attitude and disgusted by the lack of intellectual stimulation and their restricted control of the classroom. Instead of requiring students to learn the basics, the science of educrat psyco-babble and political correctness has become the focus of hoards of over-priced bureaucrats and administrators.

What you have shared here is exactly why I do not support forced busing or integration. Many Blacks now feel the same way I do and those who are old enough to remember now feel their segregated schools were overall better for them. Mainly because the teachers and staff at those schools seemed to care more about learning and discipline. Of course, it helped that they had more backup from the parents, families and communities these students came from.

"the administrators assumed that the black kids couldn't keep up with the white kids."

And for the most part,this assumption has been proven just as correct as the assumption that most NBA players will be blacks.It is just not politically correct to say to.But,that does not stop folks both black and white from believing their own experiences.