As a Gen-x child that was bussed during this integration experiment, I can say first hand how horrific it was. My childhood was already horrible enough as it is. This made it 10 times worse! We were all guinea pigs - both black and white children, because the adults of the time could not figure out a more peaceful and more logical solution. I don't think this forced integration did anyone any good. Humans like to bond naturally. We were children with no understanding being thrown into a rat maze for the sake of a political agenda.
@@edp3202 Yeah I didn't realize this was still a thing in the 70s, I mean I really don't remember the 70s in any detail, just vague cloudy memories. I know growing up as a kid in the 80s and 90s, the busing thing seemed like a thing from the distant past of the 1950s and 60s. Then you get older and realize 10-20 years back wasn't all that long ago. I'll turn 50 in one year, so there is that experience of life that you don't have as a child.
By the time this aired in 1975, white enrollment at DISD was plummeting, as realtors steered families with young kids into suburban districts where there was no busing. The high schools were still graduating large classes of white students, but fewer and fewer elementary-age white kids enrolled in the district. By 1980 the lower grades were almost entirely minority, to the point where half a dozen elementary schools in North Dallas were closed down (all were later reopened as enrollment rebounded in the 1990s.) I'm surprised by how inarticulate the Hockaday student at 2:10 seems... the Hockadaisies I encountered in the 1990s were always terrifyingly intelligent and well-spoken.
Bussing kids was one of the silliest ideas to be thought of. Why put the strain of a longer commute on people just for the sake of diversity? It's nice for kids to actually be able to walk to and from schools in their neighborhoods. That definitely wouldn't fly now with gas prices.
I think the issue is that some of the schools in the black neighborhoods were not up to par...I can tell u this issue is very complicated to say the least. Many different layers.
The problem we had with this, is that it was forced upon us kids. Being a minority during this, we were opposed to it. We lived a couple of blocks from a school, but bussed to another school miles away. Why bus us to another school to be taught by White teachers, when we can be taught by White teachers at a school a couple of blocks away from us? They want diversity? Hire minority teachers and put them in majority White student schools instead of students. That was our argument.
@@jaylucien669 Not so much because it's not safe. Predators are more rampant. Plus; back then, kids didn't have smartphones and electronic tablets to keep them occupied.
My parents were in HISD at that time and to walk 7 miles to Sam Houston High School every day and back in the 1960s and 70s. So you do math. For every mile is worth 2000 steps, 5 miles is worth 10000 steps. To burn a pound, you would have to walk at least 35 miles a week. So if they walked 14 miles to and back alone every day over a five day work week. Then, by the end of the week, they would have at least burned off 2 pounds of fat per week on a constant moving basis 40 weeks out of the school year.
thats all you got from this video? I can tell you I’ve seen so many over weight people in the 70s-80s on pictures, People were not accepting of the bigger community back then either
We were. I was there then, one of those kids. We played outside from sun up until sun down and the food was real and homemade and damn good! We were always very active nonstop in those days.
We went from riding our bicycles to school through the woods on cool bike paths with friends to standing on corner in dark waiting for bus to go to strange area with folks watching whity roll up for class in their school
3:43 Outside a TG&Y dime store, where we stack 'em high and sell 'em cheap. I remember shopping them more in their home state of Oklahoma, not knowing if they were in Dallas.
Rephrase this. It's not about who has money and who does not. It's about children being bussed miles and miles from home to unfamiliar places (both black and white children were effected by this) - children with no understanding of the political agenda at foot. None of us had a voice in this matter.
