Busing?

How do you close an achievement gap that is the spawn of deep entrenched racism? How do you propose increasing interracial contact between races that are systematically kept apart? The idea of many is to make sure that schools are as equally integrated as possible. Well that presents another problem. A lot of schools, especially in elementary schools, are neighborhood schools; therefore, the racial composition of the schools will mirror the racial composition of the neighborhood. This leads to a lot of segregation within schools.
To confront this segregation, the idea of busing was born. Busing is taking kids from area, or neighborhood, and busing them across town, or to another neighborhood, in order to try to equal the racial composition of the counties schools. Busing has done a great job in integrating schools. It provides a force to push for further integration. Through busing, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system became a model of integrated perfection, with its schools being as racially integrated as possible. Some people consider busing as a way to end white flight, the mass movements of whites from an area.
Although the successes of busing has are wide and copious, there are several of arguments and critics of the system. Some people believe that busing harms kids by placing them in dangerous neighborhoods, or in schools that are in a worse condition than the ones that they would attend if it was not for busing. There have been several supreme court cases that put constraints on busing, like the Miliken decision, which ended cross district busing. Interestingly enough, however, a lot of the anti-busing supporters are white middle class parents, and the pro-busing supporters are usually civil rights fighters.