First of all, racism is a very bad thing. Duh. And I know its an ongoing presence throughout the country, but I'm just so sick of people yelling "racism" when there is no evidence of it. People are using it to take advantage of the system and should be called out for it. For example:

Black residents rip plan to drop busing
They call proposal return to segregation

I'm particularly speaking of the Westbank of Jefferson Parish in the New Orleans area where I grew up, I'm not sure about Metairie's racial make-up. So one Jefferson Parish School Board member decided it might make sense for people who reside in their district to go to school in their district so that the cost of bussing kids all over the parish can go to things like say- books. Isn't that the way the school system usually works (does it work)? The reason they previously bussed these kids from one district to another in the past was to desegregate the schools. Now however, the schools are naturally desegregated because the neighborhoods are racially and ethnically desegregated. There is no need to bus kids all over the city to obey the desegregation law in many parts of the parish. I'm all for letting kids go to whatever school they choose, but for the taxpayer to pay for the transportation is another thing entirely. They're exploiting these elected officials and it just plain sucks.
Seems like other areas around the country are having this same problem:
Word gets out on deseg busing
And by the way, I refuse to spell "bussing"- "busing". Even though neither is wrong it just doesn't sound right in my head. Being spelled that way, wouldn't it rhyme with "fusing". Ick.