Busing in Schools

                With all of the talk we had in class and in the news about colleges and the graduation rates with minority students being considerably lower.  I found an article that discussed the busing in high schools.  This is taking place in North Carolina and in a high school they want to end their busing system and diversity policy.  This has caused a lot of controversy among minority groups.  Their policy used economic information to create diversity within the schools.  This plan is up for vote this week to end it.  The president of the NAACP in North Carolina disagrees with this idea.  He was quoted as saying:

"All of the research shows that when you create highly re-segregated schools, you create high poverty schools, high teacher turn-over, low-teacher quality schools and that affects education directly. We have thirty-nine failing high schools already in North Carolina. Ninety-nine percent of those schools are ninety-percent re-segregated, so we know what happens."

http://www.fsrn.org/audio/north-carolina-school-board-votes-ending-diversity-policy/6308

            I find that taking the busing possibility away will not help these children in getting the best education then they can get.  Since this school bases their diversity on socioeconomic status, it will be the kids who live in poverty, which will have to go back to these schools that aren't as dedicated to education as the schools which are over the poverty line.