John Hood mentions most of it today in his Daily Journal:
As an example of the other kind of conspiracy theory, the dumb kind, check out the latest claim by defenders of Wake County?s soon-to-be-abandoned policy of forcing students to attend schools far away from their homes. In Monday?s Raleigh News & Observer, critics of the new conservative school board accused several of its members of trying to sabotage public schools so that Wake parents will send their kids to private schools instead. ?We are all very concerned about it, because it seems that there?s an agenda there ? to dismantle the public school system and make it less attractive for middle- and upper-class families,? one pro-busing activist told the N&O.
Local leftists have been peddling this particular conspiracy theory for months now. I have no reason to doubt that they actually believe it, much as devotees of Loch Ness Monster lore and Sasquatch sightings seem entirely genuine in their credulity. But it makes very little sense to the rational observer.
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