When I Was A Kid....

When I was a kid we learned about school desegregation when they told us we couldn't take field trips into Boston because people might throw rocks at our school busses https://t.co/jtZGTqa3cD

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 8, 2021

...we learned about desegregation when the courts closed the "black" schools in town and bussed all those students to the "white schools."  That was my freshman year in high school.

By my junior year there was a school-wide "fight" (well, kinda sorta) that disrupted half the classes for the day and got us all sent home early (those of us who didn't just leave school anyway, because to us it looked like the apocalypse).

The high school I attended recently renamed itself “Tyler Legacy.” Given the town was named for a notorious racist (POTUS when Texas joined the Union) that’s ironic, to say the least. Can we teach that irony in Texas? Yeah, actually, we can. Will we? Aye, there’s the rub.

Some things’ll never change.