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> Is Boston too sparsely populated to have schools in walking or biking distance? Boston is reasonably dense, but it's also defacto segregated, with parts of t
by jefftk 7y ago
> Is Boston too sparsely populated to have schools in walking or biking distance?
Boston is reasonably dense, but it's also defacto segregated, with parts of the city having different racial and class makeup. If we went back to neighborhood schools that people walked to that would mean effectively resegregating the schools.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_desegregation_busing_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_desegregation_busing_cr...
- fluffything 7y agoSo Boston combats segregation by making children commute for longer ? Does that also apply to privileged families ? (I assume those would send children to private schools, avoiding such a system).
- jefftk 7y ago> So Boston combats segregation by making children commute for longer ? Yes, and not just Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing > Does that also apply to privileged families? Sometimes. Other times places close the schools in poor/non-white areas.