Yeah it's funny she looks like you could totally pick her up and drop her in some video from 1994 or even 2007 and it wouldn't even be out of place. I noticed that, too.
By the time this aired in 1975, white enrollment at DISD was plummeting, as realtors steered families with young kids into suburban districts where there was no busing. The high schools were still graduating large classes of white students, but fewer and fewer elementary-age white kids enrolled in the district. By 1980 the lower grades were almost entirely minority, to the point where half a dozen elementary schools in North Dallas were closed down (all were later reopened as enrollment rebounded in the 1990s.) I'm surprised by how inarticulate the Hockaday student at 2:10 seems... the Hockadaisies I encountered in the 1990s were always terrifyingly intelligent and well-spoken.
As a Gen-x child that was bussed during this integration experiment, I can say first hand how horrific it was. My childhood was already horrible enough as it is. This made it 10 times worse! We were all guinea pigs - both black and white children, because the adults of the time could not figure out a more peaceful and more logical solution. I don't think this forced integration did anyone any good. Humans like to bond naturally. We were children with no understanding being thrown into a rat maze for the sake of a political agenda.
We come from two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT cultures. One values education and the other thinks it's hang out, playtime and they disrupt the classroom and Teachers which makes it difficult to learn.
@ninam.1560 so you value education so much, that you thought it was intelligent to use people who you just described as unable to learn, and basically savage, as an integral part of your economic workforce(slavery). Wow, mighty smart of you. The truth is, if you asked your people what they thought of those people before slavery was abolished, your people would have described them as hard working and obedient. But after slavery, when black codes were invented, (laws that were made to imprison blk people) such as, "selling cotton after sundown" yts in the north country were conditioned to think blk people were dangerous criminals. Thats where you get the narrative you just spouted.
@@lonelyberg1808 because human beings should be free to associate or not associate with whomever they want. People who want to desegregate can move to different neighborhoods and/or bus their kids two hours away to a diverse school or whatever, I don't care. Additionally if the school is already in a diverse area, obviously it should exist for all the children of the area. But forcing kids to get on a bus for hours per day instead of allowing them to go to a school they can easily walk to is sick and twisted. A misguided, evil social experiment
@@edp3202 Yeah I didn't realize this was still a thing in the 70s, I mean I really don't remember the 70s in any detail, just vague cloudy memories. I know growing up as a kid in the 80s and 90s, the busing thing seemed like a thing from the distant past of the 1950s and 60s. Then you get older and realize 10-20 years back wasn't all that long ago. I'll turn 50 in one year, so there is that experience of life that you don't have as a child.
3:43 Outside a TG&Y dime store, where we stack 'em high and sell 'em cheap. I remember shopping them more in their home state of Oklahoma, not knowing if they were in Dallas.
We went from riding our bicycles to school through the woods on cool bike paths with friends to standing on corner in dark waiting for bus to go to strange area with folks watching whity roll up for class in their school
It seems like most people dont have a problem with being integrated. Its the inconvenience of the bussing schedules that matter and I can definitely understand that. My highschool was so over crowded we had split sessions, the juniors n seniors had to get on the bus at 3:30 in the morning to be in first period on time at 5am. We were dismissed for the day at 1 pm, 12 pm if you had OJT, on the job training/marketing management courses. It was ROUGH. My first job was at an insurance agency as a file clerk and I had to dress business casual. It was brutal. Im mixed race, so I have this wild crazy hair that I cant just roll out of bed and run a brush through it real quick, my hair took work. So I had to get up at 2:30 just to make my hair look presentable for my job after school. Get on the bus at 3:30 a.m., be in first period at 5 a.m., get out of school at 12 a.m. and because I didnt have a car or a ride, we worked out an agreement where I had to take 2 different school busses on a 3 hour ride to get to my job at this insurance agency where I worked 3-6. Get home do homework, do chores, by the time I did that and ate dinner it was time for bed. Yeah that was my highschool experience in North Tampa in the late 90s. Brutal shit. The area had developed so fast and so many people had moved here and the entire area was very rural at the time. A lot of undeveloped grazing land with lots of cattle and that sort of thing. The highschool was simply unable to handle the 5,000 students it had in 1996/7. So this was it. I was SO JEALOUS of the freshman and sophomores coming in to class at 1 p.m. they got out of school at 5 p.m. Yeah. We suffered waiting for new scholols to be built.
People really make the 70’s look like everyone dressed a certain way. I like that this also gives good insight as to how people dressed and talked casually, and not like how they would in movies. The three girls look like girls I wouldve known in high school. Everyone seems to have similar mannerisms to today.
@@jaylucien669 Not so much because it's not safe. Predators are more rampant. Plus; back then, kids didn't have smartphones and electronic tablets to keep them occupied.
My parents were in HISD at that time and to walk 7 miles to Sam Houston High School every day and back in the 1960s and 70s. So you do math. For every mile is worth 2000 steps, 5 miles is worth 10000 steps. To burn a pound, you would have to walk at least 35 miles a week. So if they walked 14 miles to and back alone every day over a five day work week. Then, by the end of the week, they would have at least burned off 2 pounds of fat per week on a constant moving basis 40 weeks out of the school year.
thats all you got from this video? I can tell you I’ve seen so many over weight people in the 70s-80s on pictures, People were not accepting of the bigger community back then either
We were. I was there then, one of those kids. We played outside from sun up until sun down and the food was real and homemade and damn good! We were always very active nonstop in those days.
The DISD magnet school system was a better solution. I went to the Environmental Science Academy in West Dallas and was very happy. I heard plenty of horror stories from other kids who were in forced bussing schools. I also knew families who packed up and moved to Richardson.
Bussing kids was one of the silliest ideas to be thought of. Why put the strain of a longer commute on people just for the sake of diversity? It's nice for kids to actually be able to walk to and from schools in their neighborhoods. That definitely wouldn't fly now with gas prices.
I think the issue is that some of the schools in the black neighborhoods were not up to par...I can tell u this issue is very complicated to say the least. Many different layers.
The problem we had with this, is that it was forced upon us kids. Being a minority during this, we were opposed to it. We lived a couple of blocks from a school, but bussed to another school miles away. Why bus us to another school to be taught by White teachers, when we can be taught by White teachers at a school a couple of blocks away from us? They want diversity? Hire minority teachers and put them in majority White student schools instead of students. That was our argument.
I don't know how Dallas compares to Miami but in my time, most Hispanics in Miami were white and there was no difference between Anglo and most Hispanics, at least Cuban. I still have my yearbooks and you can't tell who is who by looking at their pictures because it was mostly white race (both Anglo and Hispanic).
@@LemonDropYumYeah, because most Hispanics in Miami were Cuban, and it was the rich white Cubans back then who left Cuba and fled to Miami. In Texas, most of the Hispanics are Mexican, brown with Indigenous features, and noticeably Hispanic. But it's interesting that you pointed that out, because most Americans still don't realize that Hispanic/Latino is NOT A RACE.
@@Che-Guitarra I agree. Race is White, Black, Asian, Indigenous or Alaskan. Hispanic is the Latin term for “Spanish,” Hispanicus. The ancient Romans called the Iberian Peninsula Hispania. And Latin is linguistic and part of the Indo-European tree. The people who spoke it were/are originally European. In Europe there are the Anglos, Celts, Latins, Germanic tribes, Slavics, Nordics, etc and a mix of them to form Europe.
Well I went to a private Catholic school in Mexico City and it was very nice being around people who were all like me in culture and look. I think this is a problem in the U.S. because of its divides.
No ...they didn't want their children going to school with black children because we come from TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT CULTURES. Our culture values and instills education and the other shuns education! The other thinks school is a place to hang out, have playtime, and to be as disruptive in the classroom as possible, which makes it impossible for our children to learn and for good teachers to teach! Hence why all black schools have a hard time finding good teachers...who wants to deal with a bunch of assholes who have no interest in learning and AGAIN use school as a place to hangout,get meal, and have playtime instead of learning! Desegregation was a HUGE mistake!
@@ninam.1560no they’re just racist ma’am 😂 wtf are you talking about. The black people were afraid, and white people were probably afraid, but for different reasons.
I agree with you although I didn't see any black kids in this particular video but I've seen them in other videos they were well behaved well spoke even the white and Hispanic kids that I saw were also decent children in their approach but I also wouldn't wanna go to school with other students who weren't ready to learn but wants to be disruptive
I think this really goes to show how bad opposition to "woke," "diversity" rulings ages. It amazes me, a young person, that there are still people alive who see bussing as a bad thing.
Absolutely...we come from two totally separate cultures where one values education and the other thinks school is a place to hangout, have playtime and to be as disruptive as possible in the classroom which makes in impossible for our children to learn! George Wallace called it! He said this would happen if we went through with de-segregation!
@@ninam.1560not sure what school you went to, but I attended a high school that was majority black. It's a Fine Arts school as well, and for the most part the kids did not act out. Of course there are always going to be a group of kids who skip, every high school regardless of race, has a group of kids who simply act out. I also attended a majority white high school my senior year, and well it was no different. Only difference was that it wasn't a well funded school and they had a racial problem lol go figure.
Rephrase this. It's not about who has money and who does not. It's about children being bussed miles and miles from home to unfamiliar places (both black and white children were effected by this) - children with no understanding of the political agenda at foot. None of us had a voice in this matter.
I was bussed in the early 80s; and it sucked. I missed walking to my neighborhood school.
2:30 The girl's "Sweet Honesty" T-shirt looks like something girls would wear today.
Her fit in general
That entire segment looked like it could’ve been filmed today with a 70s filter slapped on it
Yeah it's funny she looks like you could totally pick her up and drop her in some video from 1994 or even 2007 and it wouldn't even be out of place. I noticed that, too.
Nothing new under the sun:) vintage is on the rise today!
70s fashion is coming back because of tiktok hipsters
By the time this aired in 1975, white enrollment at DISD was plummeting, as realtors steered families with young kids into suburban districts where there was no busing. The high schools were still graduating large classes of white students, but fewer and fewer elementary-age white kids enrolled in the district. By 1980 the lower grades were almost entirely minority, to the point where half a dozen elementary schools in North Dallas were closed down (all were later reopened as enrollment rebounded in the 1990s.)
I'm surprised by how inarticulate the Hockaday student at 2:10 seems... the Hockadaisies I encountered in the 1990s were always terrifyingly intelligent and well-spoken.
She was probably nervous in front the camera and microphone; but yes, the ones I encountered in the '90s were sophisticated and intelligent.
Yea in the 90’s. This was the 70’s man. Plus she looked like a freshman. I’m sure once she got older she may have been more articulate.
She is completely articulate. What on earth is wrong with your ears? Ridiculous comment.
@@XoXoG what on earth is wrong with everyone's ears? she was completely articulate. I don't get what the problem is.
As a Gen-x child that was bussed during this integration experiment, I can say first hand how horrific it was. My childhood was already horrible enough as it is. This made it 10 times worse! We were all guinea pigs - both black and white children, because the adults of the time could not figure out a more peaceful and more logical solution. I don't think this forced integration did anyone any good. Humans like to bond naturally. We were children with no understanding being thrown into a rat maze for the sake of a political agenda.
We come from two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT cultures. One values education and the other thinks it's hang out, playtime and they disrupt the classroom and Teachers which makes it difficult to learn.
@ninam.1560 so you value education so much, that you thought it was intelligent to use people who you just described as unable to learn, and basically savage, as an integral part of your economic workforce(slavery).
Wow, mighty smart of you.
The truth is, if you asked your people what they thought of those people before slavery was abolished, your people would have described them as hard working and obedient.
But after slavery, when black codes were invented, (laws that were made to imprison blk people) such as, "selling cotton after sundown" yts in the north country were conditioned to think blk people were dangerous criminals.
Thats where you get the narrative you just spouted.
Why not force desegregation? I mean, segregation is bad and I think the only way to stop it is to do the opposite, to do a sudden desegregation
@@lonelyberg1808 because human beings should be free to associate or not associate with whomever they want. People who want to desegregate can move to different neighborhoods and/or bus their kids two hours away to a diverse school or whatever, I don't care. Additionally if the school is already in a diverse area, obviously it should exist for all the children of the area. But forcing kids to get on a bus for hours per day instead of allowing them to go to a school they can easily walk to is sick and twisted. A misguided, evil social experiment
@@TheActionHankthey’re like, copying and pasting that message 😂 I think they’ve gone senile
We lived in a mixed neighborhood and no one was bused! It was around 1976 or so.
Incredible that this was the world I was born into. I was born in July of 1975, this was filmed in June.
Born in '72. I went to neighborhood school. Wasn't bussed. Then my sister drove me.
@@edp3202 Yeah I didn't realize this was still a thing in the 70s, I mean I really don't remember the 70s in any detail, just vague cloudy memories. I know growing up as a kid in the 80s and 90s, the busing thing seemed like a thing from the distant past of the 1950s and 60s. Then you get older and realize 10-20 years back wasn't all that long ago. I'll turn 50 in one year, so there is that experience of life that you don't have as a child.
@@John-ct9zs my grandmother was seven when women got the right to vote in US.
2:14 looks like they came from 2010-2020 😭😭
Lol I can kinda see it
3:43 Outside a TG&Y dime store, where we stack 'em high and sell 'em cheap. I remember shopping them more in their home state of Oklahoma, not knowing if they were in Dallas.
They were all over the Texas Panhandle.
3:40 - That lady 100% correct. Bless her heart.
100% stay in your own neighborhood!
ProtoKaren
We get it. You Columbus Cadets hate black people and an appearance they did not choose. Bore.
We went from riding our bicycles to school through the woods on cool bike paths with friends to standing on corner in dark waiting for bus to go to strange area with folks watching whity roll up for class in their school
You sound ignorant.
It seems like most people dont have a problem with being integrated. Its the inconvenience of the bussing schedules that matter and I can definitely understand that. My highschool was so over crowded we had split sessions, the juniors n seniors had to get on the bus at 3:30 in the morning to be in first period on time at 5am. We were dismissed for the day at 1 pm, 12 pm if you had OJT, on the job training/marketing management courses. It was ROUGH. My first job was at an insurance agency as a file clerk and I had to dress business casual. It was brutal. Im mixed race, so I have this wild crazy hair that I cant just roll out of bed and run a brush through it real quick, my hair took work. So I had to get up at 2:30 just to make my hair look presentable for my job after school. Get on the bus at 3:30 a.m., be in first period at 5 a.m., get out of school at 12 a.m. and because I didnt have a car or a ride, we worked out an agreement where I had to take 2 different school busses on a 3 hour ride to get to my job at this insurance agency where I worked 3-6. Get home do homework, do chores, by the time I did that and ate dinner it was time for bed.
Yeah that was my highschool experience in North Tampa in the late 90s. Brutal shit. The area had developed so fast and so many people had moved here and the entire area was very rural at the time. A lot of undeveloped grazing land with lots of cattle and that sort of thing. The highschool was simply unable to handle the 5,000 students it had in 1996/7. So this was it. I was SO JEALOUS of the freshman and sophomores coming in to class at 1 p.m. they got out of school at 5 p.m.
Yeah. We suffered waiting for new scholols to be built.
I am shocked to hear of a high school in our country starting classes at 5 AM!
People really make the 70’s look like everyone dressed a certain way. I like that this also gives good insight as to how people dressed and talked casually, and not like how they would in movies. The three girls look like girls I wouldve known in high school. Everyone seems to have similar mannerisms to today.
look how fit and skinny everyone was. too many processed foods and sugar now
They had plenty of that back then too. Those kids were in better shape because they were active and went outside... a lot. Kids today, not so much.
@@jaylucien669 Not so much because it's not safe. Predators are more rampant. Plus; back then, kids didn't have smartphones and electronic tablets to keep them occupied.
There wasn’t social media and stupid video games 🎮 either
My parents were in HISD at that time and to walk 7 miles to Sam Houston High School every day and back in the 1960s and 70s. So you do math. For every mile is worth 2000 steps, 5 miles is worth 10000 steps. To burn a pound, you would have to walk at least 35 miles a week. So if they walked 14 miles to and back alone every day over a five day work week. Then, by the end of the week, they would have at least burned off 2 pounds of fat per week on a constant moving basis 40 weeks out of the school year.
thats all you got from this video? I can tell you I’ve seen so many over weight people in the 70s-80s on pictures, People were not accepting of the bigger community back then either
2:28 hockaday wonder how successful she Is Now??
I was one of those kids.
Which one? I was shocked to see the young girls in the video, they look they could be from this generation
I was too. Younger, but still there in that exact place and time. I remember the girls like that and miss them everyday that I'm alive!
They look so healthy 😅
We were. I was there then, one of those kids. We played outside from sun up until sun down and the food was real and homemade and damn good! We were always very active nonstop in those days.
Thin doesn’t mean healthy. What exactly does healthy look like?
Now everyone wants to buss in my Bussy
Icon 😂
Like half the news stories throughout the 1970s was about busing kids to school.
Really? What a time 😭
Are there any plans to restore the films of the SMU collection much like older movies are?
I love these time machines.
The DISD magnet school system was a better solution. I went to the Environmental Science Academy in West Dallas and was very happy. I heard plenty of horror stories from other kids who were in forced bussing schools. I also knew families who packed up and moved to Richardson.
Bussing kids was one of the silliest ideas to be thought of. Why put the strain of a longer commute on people just for the sake of diversity? It's nice for kids to actually be able to walk to and from schools in their neighborhoods. That definitely wouldn't fly now with gas prices.
I think the issue is that some of the schools in the black neighborhoods were not up to par...I can tell u this issue is very complicated to say the least. Many different layers.
No kids ride a bus anymore, ever go near a school when it's letting out? It's totally ridiculous.
The problem we had with this, is that it was forced upon us kids. Being a minority during this, we were opposed to it. We lived a couple of blocks from a school, but bussed to another school miles away. Why bus us to another school to be taught by White teachers, when we can be taught by White teachers at a school a couple of blocks away from us? They want diversity? Hire minority teachers and put them in majority White student schools instead of students. That was our argument.
@@turntableone4356 It goes back to the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case.
Well, now I’m hearing reports of bus drivers raping students on the bus. It’s terrible. They didn’t have cameras on buses back then but they do now
I knew it 😯😯😯 it's hillscrest high school from here dallas in time travel to 70s
I went to a high school with a lot of whites. Hispanics were bussed in from west Dallas. We never talked about it. It just was what it was.
I don't know how Dallas compares to Miami but in my time, most Hispanics in Miami were white and there was no difference between Anglo and most Hispanics, at least Cuban. I still have my yearbooks and you can't tell who is who by looking at their pictures because it was mostly white race (both Anglo and Hispanic).
@@LemonDropYumYeah, because most Hispanics in Miami were Cuban, and it was the rich white Cubans back then who left Cuba and fled to Miami. In Texas, most of the Hispanics are Mexican, brown with Indigenous features, and noticeably Hispanic. But it's interesting that you pointed that out, because most Americans still don't realize that Hispanic/Latino is NOT A RACE.
@@Che-Guitarra I agree. Race is White, Black, Asian, Indigenous or Alaskan. Hispanic is the Latin term for “Spanish,” Hispanicus. The ancient Romans called the Iberian Peninsula Hispania. And Latin is linguistic and part of the Indo-European tree. The people who spoke it were/are originally European. In Europe there are the Anglos, Celts, Latins, Germanic tribes, Slavics, Nordics, etc and a mix of them to form Europe.
Well I went to a private Catholic school in Mexico City and it was very nice being around people who were all like me in culture and look. I think this is a problem in the U.S. because of its divides.
"half Mexican" was a "small minority" in 1975. Haha wow Dallas has changed a bit.
I wish I lived in the 70s
2:15 pretty girl and nice texas accent.
She's probably a grandma in her 60s now.
@@lakebay972 She probably is
@@lakebay972 How is that possible?! I'll never understand that...
Creeper
@@enlighten2seven605gay
They don't want their Kids To Go To School With them Black Kids Because They Were Strong
No ...they didn't want their children going to school with black children because we come from TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT CULTURES. Our culture values and instills education and the other shuns education! The other thinks school is a place to hang out, have playtime, and to be as disruptive in the classroom as possible, which makes it impossible for our children to learn and for good teachers to teach! Hence why all black schools have a hard time finding good teachers...who wants to deal with a bunch of assholes who have no interest in learning and AGAIN use school as a place to hangout,get meal, and have playtime instead of learning! Desegregation was a HUGE mistake!
@@ninam.1560no they’re just racist ma’am 😂 wtf are you talking about. The black people were afraid, and white people were probably afraid, but for different reasons.
@@ninam.1560that's a slippery slope dude. Good job exposing your intentions
@ninam and who wants to deal with aholes that can't stand to see someone who is A different race?
I agree with you although I didn't see any black kids in this particular video but I've seen them in other videos they were well behaved well spoke even the white and Hispanic kids that I saw were also decent children in their approach but I also wouldn't wanna go to school with other students who weren't ready to learn but wants to be disruptive
I think this really goes to show how bad opposition to "woke," "diversity" rulings ages. It amazes me, a young person, that there are still people alive who see bussing as a bad thing.
Yeah, and i'm one of em and i'm 27 years old. The truth and logic never dies.
looka t how nobody is fat
This was when our schools went to shit
Racist
Absolutely...we come from two totally separate cultures where one values education and the other thinks school is a place to hangout, have playtime and to be as disruptive as possible in the classroom which makes in impossible for our children to learn! George Wallace called it! He said this would happen if we went through with de-segregation!
@@ninam.1560careful jewtube will ban if u speak the truth about their “diversity is our strength”
@@ninam.1560A generalization, but ok.
@@ninam.1560not sure what school you went to, but I attended a high school that was majority black. It's a Fine Arts school as well, and for the most part the kids did not act out. Of course there are always going to be a group of kids who skip, every high school regardless of race, has a group of kids who simply act out. I also attended a majority white high school my senior year, and well it was no different. Only difference was that it wasn't a well funded school and they had a racial problem lol go figure.
1:05 wow, a Hispanic man speaking clear, unaccented English.... those were the days.
@@cj20080 sure
Are you from Texas?
If he was born and raised in Texas why would he have an accent?
Those type men are still around you fool.
@@Deuce75081 not as many as back then
Tampax were cheap back then lol
Ok boomer
Why should kids from good families and money be bussed to the ghetto?
Good question that didn't make any sense
Because so called good families had stolen money, and the ghetto was ghetto because whites stole luxury out of it?!!!
Rephrase this. It's not about who has money and who does not. It's about children being bussed miles and miles from home to unfamiliar places (both black and white children were effected by this) - children with no understanding of the political agenda at foot. None of us had a voice in this matter.
"Bussed to the Ghetto" would be a great title for a rap song!😂😂🤣🤣
@@123451248ifyit rlly wouldn't. Shi would be quite trash actually