High school senior can't walk at graduation unless he cuts his hair

[phetaroi]

Originally Posted by CarnivalGal

Good luck with them proving his hair is disruptive, considering their performance actually increased during the time in question.

Exactly.

[phetaroi]

Originally Posted by ClaraC

As I recall, a lot of the "push back" was push back against bussing.

In many of the smaller towns, there were a couple elementaries, one junior high, and one high school, and everyone went there. The middle school I went to in the early 70s, and the high school in the late 70's, was already fully integrated as far as blacks and whites and hispanics (although we had few asians until the viet nam war ended and the refugees arrived in significant numbers).

There was no effort whatsoever to segregate.

It was in the larger school districts, where housing choices (sometimes not so much a choice) determined the schools students went to, and in order to integrate the district campuses you had to bus students across town. And I don't think ANYONE wanted that, but it was forced on everyone.

And it didn't make much change. When you look, for example, at Austin ISD, the schools are back to being fairly segregated. There are white areas of town, and areas of town largely populated by minorities. And the school populations reflect that.

So anyway.

I think you miss the point. There is a HUGE difference between what I will call incidental segregation and forced segregation.

[ClaraC]

Originally Posted by phetaroi

I think you miss the point. There is a HUGE difference between what I will call incidental segregation and forced segregation.

I didn't miss the point, but maybe others did?

Incidental segregation can be solved by a very open policy of allowing for voluntary in-district transfers. I don't at all agree with involuntary bussing of students across town when there is already a presence (even a tiny one) of the demographic that's being bussed in.