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Tinanam0102 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Upholding forced busing to

Hi teachers,

He wrote a major opinion in 1971 upholding forced busing to desegregate schools.

What does the sentence mean?

Thanks
Tinanam
  

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It means that in 1971, he wrote the explanation of a court's decision that it was legal to require students attend schools in a different neighborhood in order to integrate the schools. Instead of all the kids living in a Black neighborhood going to one school and all the kids living in a white neighborhood going to a different school, the kids would be mixed together in both schools, even if some kids had to ride buses to get there.

— Khoff

  • It means that in 1971, he wrote the explanation of a court's decision that it was legal to require students attend schools in a different neighborhood in order to integrate the schools.
  • Instead of all the kids living in a Black neighborhood going to one school and all the kids living in a white neighborhood going to a different school, the kids would be mixed together in both schools, even if some kids had to ride buses to get there.
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It means that in 1971, he wrote the explanation of a court's decision that it was legal to require students attend schools in a different neighborhood in order to integrate the schools. Instead of all the kids living in a Black neighborhood going to one school and all the kids living in a white neighborhood going to a different school, the kids would be mixed together in both schools, even if
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Hi Khoff,

Thanks for explaining in details.

The part it says: "upholding forced busing to desegregate schools", which confuses me.

Does "to desegregate schools" refer to desegregating schools that were already segregated at that time?

Thanks again
TN
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tinanam0102Does "to desegregate schools" refer to desegregating schools that were already segregated at that time?
Yes. They're talking about "de facto" segregation -- that is, schools that were predominantly either black or white simply because that's the way the neighborhoods were, and students went to the schools closest to their homes. (This was after
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Hi Knoff,

Thanks again for giving me other reference. I'll look up. It's nice to learn something new every time I log in to this forum. I think I was baffled with the collocation of "uphold" and "to desegragate" before, because I was thinking in Chinese. Thanks so much for guiding me through.

Have a great day.
TN
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You're welcome. Your original question struck me as one where understanding the social context was as important as understanding the individual words.
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