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What are you trying to say? What specifically didn't work. It wasn't simply to even out the racial proportion for the sake of it. Segregated schools were incr

What are you trying to say? What specifically didn't work. It wasn't simply to even out the racial proportion for the sake of it. Segregated schools were incredibly worse in virtually every way. Funding. Buildings themselves. Availability of teachers. The (lack of any) kind of out of classroom support that creates great adults. Active discrimination and policing. On and on. But you're right that it did not completely fix these disparities. Though improved, they still linger on. -- I just spent 15 minutes trying to find it but I'm sorry I can't maybe someone else can? There is a great long form article that deep dives this exact topic. I want to say a small carve out city/district in Dallas, googling it might be Southlake? Because of Brown, this white community created their own legal District/city enclave and did not sell houses to POC and thus no POC students. I think the article even said something shocking like first black student was in the 80s or something like that. Since schools get lots of funding from local taxes it not only gives lots of funding to create an amazing school system, but takes funding away from the larger city that literally surrounds this mini-district. School is still overwhelmingly white and affluent. That school constantly gets in the press for their dress ghetto day (black face) and more. Not an outlier. Happens everywhere, not just the south though the south is particularly egregious. Schools should be federally funded to at least remedy just one of the many inequalities.

Dracophoenix 4y ago
"It didn't work" means that it didn't achieve a desired outcome (good education for all) by its chosen means (racial quotas). Mandatory bussing didn't exist solely for its own sake, but the reasoning of using force to mandate student diversity was and is still dubious in achieving better educational outcomes for students. Forced association does not make a school better equipped to provide a good education for anyone. One major result is that a number of parents decided to vote with their feet and their dollars. They didn't, as you put it, "take funding away" from other districts. The citizens of the United States are not serfs. They have the freedom to move to and pay property taxes where they see fit. School districts are not owed money simply for existing. If the courts argued on issues of how states should fund students rather than how many kids of a certain race in are in a certain district, perhaps a more sensible solution could have been reached (although that should not justify egregiously high levels of funding). There were already a number of voluntary bussing programs in a number states, and they were successful, despite the courts claims that they were "insufficient". In addition, schools are already federally funded in proportion to state population (a major reason for states to push filling out the census). Several states also dedicate money to funding education. Property taxes may supplement federal and state funding for schools, but there's no federal requirement for levied property taxes to go to schools. That's generally a decision left to the local populace and its elected representatives.

Dracophoenix 4y ago

"It didn't work" means that it didn't achieve a desired outcome (good education for all) by its chosen means (racial quotas). Mandatory bussing didn't exist solely for its own sake, but the reasoning of using force to mandate student diversity was and is still dubious in achieving better educational outcomes for students. Forced association does not make a school better equipped to provide a good education for anyone. One major result is that a number of parents decided to vote with their feet and their dollars. They didn't, as you put it, "take funding away" from other districts. The citizens of the United States are not serfs. They have the freedom to move to and pay property taxes where they see fit. School districts are not owed money simply for existing. If the courts argued on issues of how states should fund students rather than how many kids of a certain race in are in a certain district, perhaps a more sensible solution could have been reached (although that should not justify egregiously high levels of funding). There were already a number of voluntary bussing programs in a number states, and they were successful, despite the courts claims that they were "insufficient". In addition, schools are already federally funded in proportion to state population (a major reason for states to push filling out the census). Several states also dedicate money to funding education. Property taxes may supplement federal and state funding for schools, but there's no federal requirement for levied property taxes to go to schools. That's generally a decision left to the local populace and its elected representatives.