Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sample those nice things, 50 Bridgeport children for the past year have been arriving each day in Wilton schools after a 25-minute bus ride. The experiment is still considered a bit controversial in Wilton; but in 25 other suburban Connecticut towns that take 2,100 ghetto children from Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven and Waterbury, the state-financed Project Concern is accepted as a success. Project Concern's children are selected at random and exemplify the entire range of ghetto problems. Even so, their presence has not diluted the achievement of white children, nor has it caused any new disciplinary...
...widespread suburban acceptance of Connecticut's Project Concern evaporates rapidly whenever it is proposed that the white children be bused into Bridgeport schools, or when it is suggested that the ratio of black children in classes be increased. And while black parents of children who entered the program are generally grateful for the opportunities presented, black educators are not. They see such one-way plans as a Northern form of tokenism that leaves the majority of black children trapped in inadequate and underfinanced ghetto schools...
...years, black and white educators have written integration off as a realistic option for these communities. Now, though. Judge Roth's insistence on an integration plan for the Detroit metropolitan area raises the possibility that other areas may be forced to consider a formal linking of city and suburban schools...
Although metropolitan-area school integration is a new idea, it is far from unknown. Many Southern districts, including Miami, Nashville and Mobile, already bus between center cities and suburban areas. Resistance to metropolitan plans is often based on fear that the suburbs will have to share their economic resources?but that may be forced upon them by another potentially far-reaching court decision...
...equal chance for education, the court said, should not depend on the wealth of his parents or where he lives. Similar judgments are eventually expected in other states, and Minnesota's Supreme Court has already adopted such a ruling. If the drive to "equalize" school finance forced wealthy suburban communities to support schools in poor urban areas, parents might have less objection to busing their children to the city?and less incentive to leave it in the first place...