Re: “,” Nov. 10 guest commentary.
After reading Ani Vazquez’s story in last Sunday’s Post, I found myself remembering my children’s experience attending Manual High School in the 1980s.
My son and daughter attended Denver schools during the ’70s and ’80s under court-ordered busing. Since they didn’t know any different, their experience of going to school with all kinds of kids was simply normal. They learned to get along with students from Vietnam, since many Vietnamese families arrived in Denver after the war, and also from the Manual neighborhood. See, we lived in the neighborhood where the minority students were bused during elementary and middle school. Our neighborhood students were then bused to Manual in high school.
My 40-something children still talk about how lucky they were to be part of the “busing experiment,” and we, as a family, all wonder whether, had it continued, relationships in America might be a bit better today.
By the way, one of the little boys who was bused into our neighborhood school is now the mayor of Denver.
ٴDzԲԲDZԻ,Denver
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