[Dilbert San Diego]

I read that when court ordered busing began in Prince George’s County in 1973, that the student population was about 74% white and about 26% black at that time.

So now only about 5% are white?

Sort of off topic, but do busing and other integration programs accomplish anything, if the result is that almost all white students leave the school system?

[hanamizu]

do busing and other integration programs accomplish anything, if the result is that almost all white students leave the school system?

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Well, they accomplish a reluctance in white voters to fund school bond issues. So the schools become worse and parents who can exit the public school system in such numbers that the schools become extremely “diverse” i.e. non white. In St Louis a Federal judge dealt with voters’ reluctance by ordering the state legislature to fund the city’s schools at a level he thought appropriate to the detriment of schools outside of STL.