As a product of the Wake County Public School System of more than 10 years ago, I applaud the election of new members to the Wake County school board who are against busing students in the name of diversity.
From elementary school to high school, I was a victim of the busing program. For the better part of five years, I had to endure the wrath of a bully who was bused on a daily basis to my neighborhood school. I would personally like to go before the school board and have someone explain to me why I had to put up with this bully, when he lived only a block away from Ligon Middle School. Instead of going to Ligon, he was bused every day more than 10 miles to Carroll Middle School.
For me, why go to South Raleigh to find a bully, when he was brought every day to my backyard. No child should have to endure what I endured from him. Busing that bully from Chavis Park to North Raleigh on a daily basis didn't teach me diversity; it taught me hate.
