ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)—A school bus driver let Rachel Armstrong's three children board the bus Monday morning, but he warned them that he wouldn't give them a ride home that afternoon, nor could they ever ride his route again.
The problem: Armstrong's 10-year-old twin girls and 8-year-old son speak English. According to their mother, the driver told them the route had been designated for non-English speakers only.
Via Gates of Vienna [1], “Students kept from bus in St. Paul; told reserved for those learning English [2]”
Has desegregation busing [3] gotten such a bum rap that the pendulum has swung around again? Have we gone back to “separate but equal [4]”?
Why didn't I get the memo [5]?
Was there a memo?
I'm horribly confused.
[1] http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/kicked-off-schoolbus-for-
[2] http://www.startribune.com/462/story/930193.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separate_but_equal