I live in a city (Boston) where desegregation busing is alive and well. It’s now called “school choice.” It means that if you live on a block with fourteen kids, they might go to fourteen different schools. It also means that middle-class families find the lottery system so crazy-making that there’s an exodus as children turn five. Segregation here is now far worse than it was before desegregation.
The effect of intense school segregation on minority kids (in a city that’s about 50% white, many kids go to schools that are 99% minority) is part of what’s spurring movement towards charter schools here - they’re also highly segregated, but minority parents feel they have better outcomes.
I like Bernie’s ideas very much. I hope some smart folks can turn those ideas into effective policies that produce the outcomes desired. That’s not what happened in my city.
