What is the point of going to a school clear across town when there is a good school right next door? Students that are transferred to different schools not in their neighborhood, are split in half between neighborhood friends and school friends. It is also very expensive for schools districts to pay school bus companies to transport these students. Though integration is a wonderful idea on paper, having schools be divide within the city is not right.
In today's college, future educators told to create a "family", or a "community" in their classrooms. But how can this be done if the students do not live by each other. Students are able to live a fantasy live within the school building knowing that what happens in the school will not affect their social lives back in their neighborhoods. Another issue with this way of integrating students is that it is very expansive. Busing students from one side of town to the other. This issue is not helped by the high gas prices and the small population of people will to drive the big yellow buses.
Their has to be another way to practice integration in today's schools without splitting up neighborhoods, and raising expenses in schools that are already dealing with the issues of budget-cuts.
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