I lived in Maryland..I am caucasian and was bussed . I lived in an apt near the DC line, right across from Andrew's AFB. I did not like it. Not because of Black kids..but the fact the ride was so long, and all the surrounding folks were up in arms over it.

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I started school in the 60's in So CA and nobody was bussed here. My school was a mixed school and everybody got along.

Nope I walked the mile to school. My son on the other hand was bussed from one side of town to the other.

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Well, I took a bus, but I haven't a feeling that isn't what you mean.

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cubmom2... i grew up in clinton and went to church in suitland. I was always on andrews b/c my friends lived there and we would hang out there. I took a bus to school but i went to a private school in largo... riverdale baptist.

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I was bussed to a school 5 miles away from where I lived, even though there was a closer school about 2 miles away (high school). The one 5 miles away was our neighborhood district school. I went to a school that was 50% White, 45% Black, 5% Native American. I am Native American. The school I went to was very violent, fights everyday, guns being brought to school (this was before schools had metal detectors) pot being smoked in the halls, people leaving campus at lunch to get high. The fights were not really racial, but more neighborhood against neighborhood, we didn't really call ourselves gangs, but we did always hang out with other neighborhood kids for protection. You never went to the bathroom alone, unless you went during class on a hall pass. It got to the point at times when they had to have police presence at every exit/entrance and the whole school would go on lockdown, then it really got bad. This was in the 70's. All the junior highs and high schools in this town now do have police officers that work at the school on a daily basis.

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Our High School was very over-crowded and we had shifts. School started at 6:40am and ended 11:40pm for Juniors and Seniors (So they could have afternoon jobs) and started 12:40pm till 5:40pm for Freshman and Sophmores. (No Lunch Break for anyone)

I rode the bus the first 3 years (till I got my car) I didn't mind it the first 2 years but it was terrible as a Junior. We had to be at the bus stop by 5:30am.

My school was about 70% hispanic (or is it Latino, I never know what's PC) and the rest of the population was split between all the other nationalities. I honestly cannot remember there ever being any kind of race issues.

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>>>School started at 6:40am and ended 11:40pm for Juniors and Seniors (So they could have afternoon jobs) and started 12:40pm till 5:40pm for Freshman and Sophmores. (No Lunch Break for anyone)<<<


I think as a teen I woulda liked either schedule, but..... with research in the past 5 years coming out about how teens need more sleep, later school start schedules, as a mom I would like it. So many teens *need* to have jobs nowadays, my teens are no exception.

I home school, but one of my kids takes one class at the neighborhood high school, has to be up there by 7:30, tough some days for a kid who works till 9 at night.

For the 09-10 school year our district decided that the high school kids will start an hour later than it's been forever here. I'm very happy about this. Some of my kids have gone out to local schools for periods of time, and I always thougth it was ridiculous that my elementary kids, who were up at the crack of dawn, started school so much later than the teens.

I student taught in an OKC school system and most of my students were bussed in from elsewhere. I didn't see that it accomplished what it was supposed to. The kids who spent hours together on the bus became buds - they were from the same neighborhoods and they spent all that 'social' time together. They got to class and spent seven very structured hours in the presence of other students that they didn't live near and who weren't going to be on the bus with them after school.

In other words... even with busing, the neighborhood you were from determined who your friends were. The classrooms were integrated sure, but that didn't mean anybody was forming friendships with anybody.

In elementary school I walked with a group of neighborhood kids we walked 3 miles to school. In middle school we were bussed ( 6-8 ) The middle school as over 15 miles away. In High school I again walked from my mom's job to the high school and walked back ( Good lord that was such a long walk over 7 miles ! ) . My kids are all bussed , here it doesn't matter how far you live all kids in this county can be bussed if they want it.

I lived in Andrews but was bussed to Walker Mills, MD.

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Growing up in Maine, We were never bussed. I did have to walk a mile to/from school, until High School, then we got to actually ride a bus (our High School was in a nearby town). My dh grew up in Maryland and was bussed, and he did not like it.

In elementary school, mine was an all white school. This was in the early and mid fifties. I walked to school, but there was a period where kids were bused into our school. The kids bused in were also white. They lived in the projects and were being bused in to keep them from having to go to school with the black kids. We were not allowed to mix with them even though they were white. They arrived slightly after school started, had classes in different rooms, ate lunch at a different time and took recess at a different time and left just before we did.

For high school, I took public buses. Once again there were no blacks in my school. My brother, who is about 3 years younger did go to a different high school for part of his time, and he did have other ethnic groups in his classes. Just the difference of three years and things were starting to change. A rare fist fight or rumored pregnancy was the extent of any major drama in my schools. No guns, no drugs, (that I ever heard of), and very little bad language. What the hell happened? lol....