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In the US, most cities have bussing programs to intentionally give kids long commutes. The goal is to put students from poorer areas in better schools. Academi

In the US, most cities have bussing programs to intentionally give kids long commutes. The goal is to put students from poorer areas in better schools. Academic outcomes show this doesn’t help the students, but cities continue on regardless. What person thinks a 40 minute commute for a child is appropriate or healthy? I would be shocked if that worked for anyone.

nnopepe 4y ago
Why do they opt for such a silly scheme over improving the quality of local schools?
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- munk-a 4y ago
  In a lot of parts of America school funding comes from local taxes so regions would need to band together to provide consistent funding across districts (which would cause the richer districts to lose funding money which pisses off rich people).
  - mcv 4y ago
    Yes, but why not change that system in order to provide more equal funding, instead of resorting to bussing?
    - munk-a 4y ago
      As I said, the rich people don't want it to happen... so it won't. Additionally, people literally buy houses for the school district - if you start to disrupt that system you'll potentially cause a shift in housing values and then you're up against both the rich and property owners and America can't win that fight with its current political system - money carries too loud of a vote.
  - geraldwhen 4y ago
    Funding has nothing to do with the schools. A single disruptive student can shut down a class. Within a school district, teachers are assigned. They rarely get the school they want. So for any given school, an entire district has the same pool of teachers. And yet some schools are much worse than others.
- Rebelgecko 4y ago
  Improving the quality of the schools wouldn't necessarily lead to people volunteering to desegregate themselves.
Turing_Machine 4y ago
> In the US, most cities have bussing programs to intentionally give kids long commutes. The goal is to put students from poorer areas in better schools. Busing hasn't been a thing for many years, and never was in use in "most cities". Edit: for those in other countries, "busing" in this context means loading the children who would normally attend one school onto a bus and transporting them to another (often distant) school. The intent behind this was to even out the distribution of races among the schools. It never did work well (not the least because essentially all of the students and parents involved hated it), and was effectively banned by a series of Supreme Court decisions starting in the 1990s.
- geraldwhen 4y ago
  My kids school has bussing. As does every school in my county. Kids with huge commutes that do nothing but lower test score averages looking at the data.

nnopepe 4y ago

Why do they opt for such a silly scheme over improving the quality of local schools?

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munk-a 4y ago
In a lot of parts of America school funding comes from local taxes so regions would need to band together to provide consistent funding across districts (which would cause the richer districts to lose funding money which pisses off rich people).
- mcv 4y ago
  Yes, but why not change that system in order to provide more equal funding, instead of resorting to bussing?
  - munk-a 4y ago
    As I said, the rich people don't want it to happen... so it won't. Additionally, people literally buy houses for the school district - if you start to disrupt that system you'll potentially cause a shift in housing values and then you're up against both the rich and property owners and America can't win that fight with its current political system - money carries too loud of a vote.
- geraldwhen 4y ago
  Funding has nothing to do with the schools. A single disruptive student can shut down a class. Within a school district, teachers are assigned. They rarely get the school they want. So for any given school, an entire district has the same pool of teachers. And yet some schools are much worse than others.
Rebelgecko 4y ago
Improving the quality of the schools wouldn't necessarily lead to people volunteering to desegregate themselves.

Turing_Machine 4y ago

> In the US, most cities have bussing programs to intentionally give kids long commutes. The goal is to put students from poorer areas in better schools. Busing hasn't been a thing for many years, and never was in use in "most cities". Edit: for those in other countries, "busing" in this context means loading the children who would normally attend one school onto a bus and transporting them to another (often distant) school. The intent behind this was to even out the distribution of races among the schools. It never did work well (not the least because essentially all of the students and parents involved hated it), and was effectively banned by a series of Supreme Court decisions starting in the 1990s.

geraldwhen 4y ago
My kids school has bussing. As does every school in my county. Kids with huge commutes that do nothing but lower test score averages looking at the data.