When did bussing kids become a thing? It's kind of a new technology, like maybe a hundred years. It's progressively getting worse not better. How about something new like mom or dad stays home, does a budget, smaller house, one car, read the Hobbit to your kid, work on maths at the grocery store, teach them how to love God, how to pray and say darn the rat race.
When I was a kid in the 70’s there was bussing. I lived in Fayetteville; kids were bussed in from Johnson which was not the quick commute it is now. It was poor with one police officer, one restaurant, and a trailer park. These kids weren’t being bussed because their parents were climbing the corporate ladder or leveraging. I walked to school after 3rd grade bc we lived right there in the neighborhood.
When I was in Jr High (later 70’s), I took the bus from my elementary school to Jr High. My parents could have driven me but it was a simple matter, and I liked to see my friends in that free time. If I had objected they would’ve, and certainly they drove me when I was late, or had an appointment to see the Dr, and so on. I didn’t have a sense of bonding with my parents over being driven to school; I did have a strong bonding with them on many other things.
I’d never thought of bussing as a sacrifice to faith & family. Maybe things have changed - I don’t have kids and my friends have grandkids, at best.
The horror of bussing in Arkansas I know historically is this: black kids from Fayetteville were bussed to Fort Smith rather than going to Fayetteville High School during the Jim Crow years. After I was born. At 7 years my senior, my older brother remembers it well.
I knew an older man — Vietnam Vet — his context was that when he was going to high school in the late 50’s/early 60’s; there wasn’t a bus. If you wanted to go to high school you got to Fort Smith on your own. So but for a few families, there was no high school for black kids. That’s the faith & family values I’m aware of related to bussing in NWA.
I know that your experience is different and so you have a different opinion. I’d be interested to know how things have changed - they obviously have based on your view. It is an entirely different era.
My experience watching the bussing dilemma in bryant is they shut down Paron schools claiming not enough money, so the facility that was there rots and the kids from that area are bussed almost an hour away to bryant. These kids are picked up at 6 am to get to school and probably get home around 5:30pm. They could've played in the woods for 4 hours and read a book under an apple tree. I just question the consensus that a school building and a schedule make it necessary to bus. Like leaders in education still sit around reconfiguring the same plan, maybe the classroom style system isn't a very good formula to make little brains capable of passing some standardized test. It seems to me this consensus works better for creating robots.
When did bussing kids become a thing? It's kind of a new technology, like maybe a hundred years. It's progressively getting worse not better. How about something new like mom or dad stays home, does a budget, smaller house, one car, read the Hobbit to your kid, work on maths at the grocery store, teach them how to love God, how to pray and say darn the rat race.
When I was a kid in the 70’s there was bussing. I lived in Fayetteville; kids were bussed in from Johnson which was not the quick commute it is now. It was poor with one police officer, one restaurant, and a trailer park. These kids weren’t being bussed because their parents were climbing the corporate ladder or leveraging. I walked to school after 3rd grade bc we lived right there in the neighborhood.
When I was in Jr High (later 70’s), I took the bus from my elementary school to Jr High. My parents could have driven me but it was a simple matter, and I liked to see my friends in that free time. If I had objected they would’ve, and certainly they drove me when I was late, or had an appointment to see the Dr, and so on. I didn’t have a sense of bonding with my parents over being driven to school; I did have a strong bonding with them on many other things.
I’d never thought of bussing as a sacrifice to faith & family. Maybe things have changed - I don’t have kids and my friends have grandkids, at best.
The horror of bussing in Arkansas I know historically is this: black kids from Fayetteville were bussed to Fort Smith rather than going to Fayetteville High School during the Jim Crow years. After I was born. At 7 years my senior, my older brother remembers it well.
I knew an older man — Vietnam Vet — his context was that when he was going to high school in the late 50’s/early 60’s; there wasn’t a bus. If you wanted to go to high school you got to Fort Smith on your own. So but for a few families, there was no high school for black kids. That’s the faith & family values I’m aware of related to bussing in NWA.
I know that your experience is different and so you have a different opinion. I’d be interested to know how things have changed - they obviously have based on your view. It is an entirely different era.
My experience watching the bussing dilemma in bryant is they shut down Paron schools claiming not enough money, so the facility that was there rots and the kids from that area are bussed almost an hour away to bryant. These kids are picked up at 6 am to get to school and probably get home around 5:30pm. They could've played in the woods for 4 hours and read a book under an apple tree. I just question the consensus that a school building and a schedule make it necessary to bus. Like leaders in education still sit around reconfiguring the same plan, maybe the classroom style system isn't a very good formula to make little brains capable of passing some standardized test. It seems to me this consensus works better for creating robots.