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The other is buses zipping around all over town, eating up school budgets and determining the start/end times of the school day ... but that is quite another story.

Is there less segregation in Canada? For the US busing, all things being equal, surely reduces school segregation -- which is, of course, bad.
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Good question.

I cannot quite comment on now, been down south of the border for too long. There was less talk about segregation in Canada, and Canadians tended to believe that they had fewer segregation and general race-related problems than did the USA (the States as we would say). That might reflect the less talk as much as actually fewer problems, however.

I see buses all taking kids to school even in districts where there doesn't seem to be any out-of area population mixing in the schools. My impression is that every kid in the USA who lives more than about 1/2 mile from school gets a bus ride - but it's just an impression and I don't really know how all of this works.

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[quote author=CTcard link=topic=11950.msg116644#msg116644 date=1428953619]
The other is buses zipping around all over town, eating up school budgets and determining the start/end times of the school day ... but that is quite another story.

Is there less segregation in Canada? For the US busing, all things being equal, surely reduces school segregation -- which is, of course, bad.
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Good question.

I cannot quite comment on now, been down south of the border for too long. There was less talk about segregation in Canada, and Canadians tended to believe that they had fewer segregation and general race-related problems than did the USA (the States as we would say). That might reflect the less talk as much as actually fewer problems, however.

I see buses all taking kids to school even in districts where there doesn't seem to be any out-of area population mixing in the schools. My impression is that every kid in the USA who lives more than about 1/2 mile from school gets a bus ride - but it's just an impression and I don't really know how all of this works.