Actually, I think I get the point the defenders of Wake’s forced busing policy are trying to make with their wild conspiracy theories and tortured logic.
It goes like this:
1. Wake was a good public system because it bused across the county for socio-economic balance.
2. Systems that do not bus are bad.
3. Ending the previous busing regime makes Wake a bad system.
4. Parents will flee a bad public system and to private alternatives.
Of course, they cannot possibly admit this is really their thinking process. It turns solely on the discredited notion that the busing policy somehow helped kids when the facts show otherwise. But they know that — at least the N&O writers do.
Besides, I think all this hides an even deeper projection that explains all discord and resentment that has boiled up as Wake as moved away from a failed policy.
Namely, defenders of the old policy have to face the very real possibility that Wake’s public system will function in the future primarily as an educational endeavor rather than a blunt instrument of social policy. They don’t like that. In fact, they have little to no use for such a system.
In other words, it is they who will flee it.
