Here's the thing about opposing "forced busing"

[GulfCoast66]

50. Tell that to an 8 year old me. And my parents.

Walk to my local school 10 minutes away. Then put on a bus and shipped half an hour away to a school where I had no friends, was totally alienated and was set back 3 years academically. Not from the quality of teaching, but from feeling totally disconnected from my environment. 45 years later and that year still pisses me off. And it wasn’t the black kids in class. I was born in 66. Always had integrated schools and was sheltered as a young child should be and never knew at the time schools had been segregated.

The one thing proponents of bussing never addressed , who were well intentioned I’ll admit, was the effect on the young children.

Forced bussing was an unmitigated disaster. It hurt children. Black and white. And in my town it destroyed the black neighborhood schools since more of them were bussed to meet the quotas.

Bussing where I lived took children as young as 6 and shipped them to a school across the city to a place where they had no friends, no family and were alone. Moms(and there were no dads walking kids to school then) would walk their kid to school. But rather than being met by their neighborhood friends and going to class got shoved on a bus and sent to a strange place.

That was the reality. Not some high minded goals you have read about. I know. I went through it. No way in hell will I ever support that bullshit. We can clean up our mess without harming innocent children.