buses for as long as there have been school buses and it was once it became a tool for integration that we had a problem with it. kids ride buses every day. i do think it s clear that no one is willing to really do that anymore. so we do have to come up with other solutions. do you think part of this has to do with the thing that was so interesting to me in new york was what you see is in the absence of a plan to desegregate schools, in the absence of policy explicitly agitating for that, there s a million different ways that self-segregation will happen. that segregation will happen as a natural process. and i was so impressed with the folks at park slope collegiate who were being very intentional about trying to maintain an integrated space, but they re rolling a rock up hill because there s so many things happening in a social level in terms of how new york is divided, in terms of how our society works that pushes toward segregated schools. sheryll? this is what s unfortunate.
term. most school kids have ridden buses for as long as there have been school buses and it was once it became a tool for integration that we had a problem with it. kids ride buses every day. i do think it s clear that no one is willing to really do that anymore. so we do have to come up with other solutions. do you think part of this has to do with the thing that was so interesting to me in new york was what you see is in the absence of a plan to desegregate schools, in the absence of policy explicitly agitating for that, there s a million different ways that self-segregation will happen. that segregation will happen as a natural process. and i was so impressed with the folks at park slope collegiate who were being very intentional l about trying to maintain an integrated space, but they re rolling a rock up hill because there s so many things happening in a social level in terms of how new york is divided, in terms of how our society works that pushes toward segregated schools. s