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Start of forced segregation busing in EBR
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:37 pm
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:37 pm
I remember watching a special about the fired busing in East Baton Rouge Parish schools on Frontline a number of years ago and they discussed the beginning of segregation busing in Baton Rouge and essentially the end of the quality public schools in Baton Rouge Parish (and the rapid development of the private and parochial schools. )
The problem with this special is it they talked about busing beginning in the 80s many years after I was actually bussed out of the Broadmoor School District to valley park junior High. ( Where I got to see my first stabbing, riots, friends after they got the hell beat out of them for being a white boy in the bathroom etc.) I learned to hold it all day, (bucee would be proud), or we went in groups, if you were caught in bathroom by yourself you were toast.
This was my 7th grade year so it was 76 -77. This is many years before they claimed busing started in Baton Rouge. Maybe there is some others on here that were part of this “experiment?” Wendell, Dale, Ritchie, Valerie any if you guys on here?
To this day I am still not sure wtf it was, but it is very significant part of my life, as I went to live with my dad after that shite. The last day of school all the “brothers” formed a gauntlet and beat the hell out of the white kids as we tried to get on the buses. Some biker kid tried to kill my best friend all year for something stupid, saw more people stabbed in one year then the rest of life all together. You didn’t graduate to next year you survived it.
There were some relatively famous political and media family’s kids with us I remember that.
After our stories and horrors got around I have no doubt the great exodus was planned or started. The idea of sending sheltered middle class white kids to the roughest and worst minority school in the city was completely idiotic to start. We didn’t change them they changed us.
The problem with this special is it they talked about busing beginning in the 80s many years after I was actually bussed out of the Broadmoor School District to valley park junior High. ( Where I got to see my first stabbing, riots, friends after they got the hell beat out of them for being a white boy in the bathroom etc.) I learned to hold it all day, (bucee would be proud), or we went in groups, if you were caught in bathroom by yourself you were toast.
This was my 7th grade year so it was 76 -77. This is many years before they claimed busing started in Baton Rouge. Maybe there is some others on here that were part of this “experiment?” Wendell, Dale, Ritchie, Valerie any if you guys on here?
To this day I am still not sure wtf it was, but it is very significant part of my life, as I went to live with my dad after that shite. The last day of school all the “brothers” formed a gauntlet and beat the hell out of the white kids as we tried to get on the buses. Some biker kid tried to kill my best friend all year for something stupid, saw more people stabbed in one year then the rest of life all together. You didn’t graduate to next year you survived it.
There were some relatively famous political and media family’s kids with us I remember that.
After our stories and horrors got around I have no doubt the great exodus was planned or started. The idea of sending sheltered middle class white kids to the roughest and worst minority school in the city was completely idiotic to start. We didn’t change them they changed us.
This post was edited on 6/2/21 at 9:20 pm
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Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:38 pm to TutHillTiger
quote:well played
I was actually bust out of the Broadmoor school Districk
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:39 pm to TutHillTiger
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TutHillTiger
Tuthill like Murray turbo machinery?
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:39 pm to TutHillTiger
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Start of busing in EBR
I commend you for spelling this correctly.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:42 pm to TutHillTiger
My pops went to Broadmoor, a proud alumni just like Webbie.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:43 pm to TutHillTiger
Sounds terrible baw.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:47 pm to TutHillTiger
I was a Soph at BRHS 64-65' when it first started..we had an initial number of I want to say 15-20...a few issues but by the time I graduated, 67' all had smoothed out.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:48 pm to TutHillTiger
tut tut, tut
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:49 pm to TutHillTiger
Judge John Parker is Asshoe
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:51 pm to TutHillTiger
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Maybe there is some others on here that were part of this experiment? Wendell, Dale, Ritchie, Valerie any if you guys on here?
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:52 pm to TutHillTiger
Read The Coleman Report. It is the basis of what started bussing in EBR. That report and US District Judge John V. Parker was the death of EBR public schools. Synopsis
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Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:56 pm to TutHillTiger
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Maybe there is some others on here that were part of this experiment?
Posted on 6/2/21 at 8:57 pm to TutHillTiger
Busing started in 82
Posted on 6/2/21 at 9:06 pm to prplhze2000
I rode my bike to school by myself from K-3 (78-81)...after that I had to wake up at 5 am and get on a bus that took me to another bus that took me to the hood like 40 minutes from my home.
They should have stuck with neighborhood schools and desegregated some other way. My kids will be in private school now. No one wanted to scatter all around the city the way it worked out.
They should have stuck with neighborhood schools and desegregated some other way. My kids will be in private school now. No one wanted to scatter all around the city the way it worked out.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 9:08 pm to SalE
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I was a Soph at BRHS 64-65' when it first started..we had an initial number of I want to say 15-20...a few issues but by the time I graduated, 67' all had smoothed out.
Forced busing didn’t start then. It was much later.
64-65 I believe is when they closed BRJH and sent their kids to Istrouma Jr. and Westdale Jr. High.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 9:21 pm to prplhze2000
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Busing started in 82
They started long before that. In 1966 our EBR school districts were redrawn. I had been going to a predominately white school, but the next year it was predominately black.
When MLK was assassinated, I was in second grade. I was threatened by some 6th graders that they were going to burn my house down.
We moved to another district and again I saw first hand what the OP described about being beat up for being the wrong race at the wrong school. Some kids routinely took over the bathrooms at recess and kept white kids from going in by beating the crap out of them.
In junior high, there was just about a threat a month by some kids that there was going to be a race riot.
As another poster said, Judge John Parker was ASSHOE.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 9:23 pm to TutHillTiger
I think you’re my brothers age, he was at valley, but went to Tara. We lived in Webb park. I went to Westdale, then McKinley middle. But the restructuring changed the entire school dynamic. The busing essentially eliminated any parental involvement from those that had no transportation. When Westdale was a neighborhood school, parents walked to pta meetings. Different times I know, but our homecoming queen lived 200yds from Woodland and she was bused to Tara.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 9:23 pm to TutHillTiger
Bussing starting when I was in 1st grade. I used to catch a bus and go to a transfer school, then another bus to my school. I went to 7 different schools from K-12. At no time did I go to a school that was close to my home.
I turned out ok but my child will never go to an EBR public school. Even if she wanted to, I doubt she could go to the brand new school 3 blocks from my house.
I turned out ok but my child will never go to an EBR public school. Even if she wanted to, I doubt she could go to the brand new school 3 blocks from my house.
Posted on 6/2/21 at 9:24 pm to doubleb
I went to twin oaks elementary as was supposed to go to Broadmoor. Everyone that could got out of it, ferriday, kilpatrick, Leblanc, etc. The people that went were kids of big liberals, public figures, government workers etc. There were supposed to be 100 or so from twin oaks might have been 20 when it started.
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