[jkarolyi]

I lived in Charlotte, NC where integration bussing was big. Living in an upper-middle class neighborhood, my neighborhood's designated high school was over an hour's bus ride away in a VERY scary, impoverished area of town.

Needless to say, when I got out of our excellent Jr. High I enrolled in a private Christian high school. Thank God my parents had enough money to send me...some of the other kids in my neighborhood weren't as lucky. Property values were low in our neighborhood because of this, while a neighborhood down a few blocks with smaller houses had higher values because they could stay in local schools.

I still think the harsh measures were necessary and the right thing to do, but I could understand how some people might think otherwise.