Do You believe busing is the answer to acheiving integration in public schools?

[MarvinGardens]

4. I answered yes based on a comparison of 2 metro areas I have lived in.

Bussing is no longer required in the South, but is still practiced in some areas (or was recently). Wake County, NC (encompassing Raleigh, Cary, Apex, and other suburbs) still practiced a form of it. Each neighborhood was defined as a "node". Nodes were assigned to schools in order to keep the % poverty below 40% at any school. They used economics, not race, but the two often go hand in hand.. The nice thing was that when looking for a house, you didn't have to worry that the schools were terrible. They'd be fine pretty much anywhere.

Now I live in the northern Atlanta suburbs. It's neighborhood schools, with no bussing and vast differences in poverty between school districts. I think it is worse for the community, encourages white flight, and it creates an extra layer of hassle in the real estate market. If I can say something positive about it though, my kids could practically walk to their school.

The white flight is much stronger here and is quite ridiculous. There is a subgroup of white person who keeps moving further and further out. Atlanta has a lot of minorities, and the close-in white areas are very expensive. So their choices are to live among minorities, or move ridiculously far out. My coworkers seem liberal for the most part, but then I talk to the occasional one who lives 1.5 hours out from work, you know, for "good schools".