People Interviewed About Students Being Bussed From North Dallas To South Dallas

People Interviewed About Students Being Bussed From North Dallas To South Dallas - June 1975

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@rodneysammons5544 4 ай бұрын

We went from riding our bicycles to school through the woods on cool bike paths with friends to standing on corner in dark waiting for bus to go to strange area with folks watching whity roll up for class in their school

@patrickmccarron5059 Жыл бұрын

3:40 - That lady 100% correct. Bless her heart.

@jsnww81 2 жыл бұрын

By the time this aired in 1975, white enrollment at DISD was plummeting, as realtors steered families with young kids into suburban districts where there was no busing. The high schools were still graduating large classes of white students, but fewer and fewer elementary-age white kids enrolled in the district. By 1980 the lower grades were almost entirely minority, to the point where half a dozen elementary schools in North Dallas were closed down (all were later reopened as enrollment rebounded in the 1990s.) I'm surprised by how inarticulate the Hockaday student at 2:10 seems... the Hockadaisies I encountered in the 1990s were always terrifyingly intelligent and well-spoken.

@lakebay972 Жыл бұрын

She was probably nervous in front the camera and microphone; but yes, the ones I encountered in the '90s were sophisticated and intelligent.

@XoXoG Жыл бұрын

Yea in the 90’s. This was the 70’s man. Plus she looked like a freshman. I’m sure once she got older she may have been more articulate.

@tmb9126 24 күн бұрын

As a Gen-x child that was bussed during this integration experiment, I can say first hand how horrific it was. My childhood was already horrible enough as it is. This made it 10 times worse! We were all guinea pigs - both black and white children, because the adults of the time could not figure out a more peaceful and more logical solution. I don't think this forced integration did anyone any good. Humans like to bond naturally. We were children with no understanding being thrown into a rat maze for the sake of a political agenda.

@cindibaker4341 2 жыл бұрын

We lived in a mixed neighborhood and no one was bused! It was around 1976 or so.

@John-ct9zs 4 ай бұрын

Incredible that this was the world I was born into. I was born in July of 1975, this was filmed in June.

@bobbyduran5632 2 жыл бұрын

Are there any plans to restore the films of the SMU collection much like older movies are?

@gregsells8549 2 жыл бұрын

3:43 Outside a TG&Y dime store, where we stack 'em high and sell 'em cheap. I remember shopping them more in their home state of Oklahoma, not knowing if they were in Dallas.

@lakebay972 Жыл бұрын

They were all over the Texas Panhandle.

@matsugo24 Жыл бұрын

I was bussed in the early 80s; and it sucked. I missed walking to my neighborhood school.

@d.b.2812 2 жыл бұрын

I was one of those kids.

@21350ctw Ай бұрын

Which one? I was shocked to see the young girls in the video, they look they could be from this generation

@human8454 Жыл бұрын

They look so healthy 😅

@tritosac 2 жыл бұрын

Bussing kids was one of the silliest ideas to be thought of. Why put the strain of a longer commute on people just for the sake of diversity? It's nice for kids to actually be able to walk to and from schools in their neighborhoods. That definitely wouldn't fly now with gas prices.

@turntableone4356 2 жыл бұрын

I think the issue is that some of the schools in the black neighborhoods were not up to par...I can tell u this issue is very complicated to say the least. Many different layers.

@jstar1000 Жыл бұрын

No kids ride a bus anymore, ever go near a school when it's letting out? It's totally ridiculous.

@ricovali9245 Жыл бұрын

The problem we had with this, is that it was forced upon us kids. Being a minority during this, we were opposed to it. We lived a couple of blocks from a school, but bussed to another school miles away. Why bus us to another school to be taught by White teachers, when we can be taught by White teachers at a school a couple of blocks away from us? They want diversity? Hire minority teachers and put them in majority White student schools instead of students. That was our argument.

@tomloft2000 Жыл бұрын

@@turntableone4356 It goes back to the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case.

@XoXoG Жыл бұрын

Well, now I’m hearing reports of bus drivers raping students on the bus. It’s terrible. They didn’t have cameras on buses back then but they do now

@viviandarkbloom100 2 жыл бұрын

look how fit and skinny everyone was. too many processed foods and sugar now

@jaylucien669 2 жыл бұрын

They had plenty of that back then too. Those kids were in better shape because they were active and went outside... a lot. Kids today, not so much.

@lakebay972 Жыл бұрын

@@jaylucien669 Not so much because it's not safe. Predators are more rampant. Plus; back then, kids didn't have smartphones and electronic tablets to keep them occupied.

@XoXoG Жыл бұрын

There wasn’t social media and stupid video games 🎮 either

@wildboy700 Ай бұрын

My parents were in HISD at that time and to walk 7 miles to Sam Houston High School every day and back in the 1960s and 70s. So you do math. For every mile is worth 2000 steps, 5 miles is worth 10000 steps. To burn a pound, you would have to walk at least 35 miles a week. So if they walked 14 miles to and back alone every day over a five day work week. Then, by the end of the week, they would have at least burned off 2 pounds of fat per week on a constant moving basis 40 weeks out of the school year.

@rkid727 Жыл бұрын

I went to a high school with a lot of whites. Hispanics were bussed in from west Dallas. We never talked about it. It just was what it was.

@marcorivera2840 Ай бұрын

I knew it 😯😯😯 it's hillscrest high school from here dallas in time travel to 70s

@Mark-uv6sm Жыл бұрын

2:28 hockaday wonder how successful she Is Now??

@patrickmccarron5059 Жыл бұрын

Like half the news stories throughout the 1970s was about busing kids to school.

@ConwayTruckload Жыл бұрын

This was when our schools went to shit

@RunNRumbleComedy Жыл бұрын

Racist

@billlevins7460 2 жыл бұрын

2:15 pretty girl and nice texas accent.

@lakebay972 Жыл бұрын

She's probably a grandma in her 60s now.

@billlevins7460 Жыл бұрын

@@lakebay972 She probably is

@Alaprine Жыл бұрын

@@lakebay972 How is that possible?! I'll never understand that...

@herochalmers2182 Жыл бұрын

They don't want their Kids To Go To School With them Black Kids Because They Were Strong

@RocketRocket-ce3ke 9 ай бұрын

Tampax were cheap back then lol

@theobserver86 Жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@robertpalin2161 2 жыл бұрын

1:05 wow, a Hispanic man speaking clear, unaccented English.... those were the days.

@robertpalin2161 2 жыл бұрын

@@cj20080 sure

@yours8295 2 жыл бұрын

Are you from Texas?

@tritosac 2 жыл бұрын

If he was born and raised in Texas why would he have an accent?

@Deuce75081 2 жыл бұрын

Those type men are still around you fool.

@robertpalin2161 2 жыл бұрын

@@Deuce75081 not as many as back then

@MongoLloyd-px7jt Жыл бұрын

Why should kids from good families and money be bussed to the ghetto?

@kweisi2204 11 ай бұрын

Good question that didn't make any sense

@BigBanana786 Ай бұрын

Because so called good families had stolen money, and the ghetto was ghetto because whites stole luxury out of it?!!!

@tmb9126 24 күн бұрын

Rephrase this. It's not about who has money and who does not. It's about children being bussed miles and miles from home to unfamiliar places (both black and white children were effected by this) - children with no understanding of the political agenda at foot. None of us had a voice in this matter.