Comments to Steve Sailer: Steve;
Did you ever do an article on the Los Angeles school busing fiasco of the late 70′s? I was away in the service while it was developing but if my memory serves me right by the late ’70′s the attempts to forestall the program died out in the courts and the program went into action. I remember driving to work through Sepulveda Pass past quarter mile long convoys of buses headed for the Valley. I think the bulk of the program was allowed to quietly fade away when it was discovered that the white students had pretty much all taken a powder by the time legal stalling smoke cleared. Buses would arrive in the newly “integrated” schools and it was pretty much:
“Hey where’s the White kids?”
” We don’t have any White kids here, we have Samoans, Persians, Koreans, Filipinos, Vietnamese and Arabs; we thought you were bringing White kids.”
“Who, us? We have Blacks, Mexicans, Cambodians, El Salvadorans, Hawaiian’s, Egyptians, Pakistanis and a smattering of !Hmong ethnic tribesmen.”
“Oh.”
I don’t know if it is related but I remember a shortly afterwards seeing from the freeway a sea of yellow school buses stored in a giant lot in San Pedro. There were literally acres of yellow roofs in that lot.
* Yeah, school busing to the San Fernando Valley pretty much wiped out Jewish attendance at Los Angeles public schools. Before busing, a very high percentage of Jews attended public schools in LA’s SFV. But not afterwards. Jewish politicians like Bobbi Fiedler and Alan Robbins led the failed resistance.
