How America abandoned the only policy that consistently closes the black-white educational gap

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@Abiatha_Swelter

I went to grade school in a Boston suburb in the early 1970s, and I remember the Metco buses coming in with kids from Roxbury and Dorchester. I don’t remember any issues with the kids–they came in, went to classes and so on with everyone else, went home again. But I do remember seeing the news videos from South Boston, of the Irish kids throwing rocks at the buses. I couldn’t understand why they would be so mean to kids who just wanted to go to school.

Same. I remember the first Metco students coming to my grade school, and then in high school being horrified at the scenes in Southie, Charlestown, and City Hall. Boston’s most shameful era.