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Boston School Superintendent William Leary told a Science Center audience of 50 Wednesday that he is "extremely fearful" about the resumption of school busing in Boston this fall, especially about the start of busing in Charlestown, a neighborhood that borders Cambridge.
Leary said he hopes "we don't have any problems anywhere", but said he expects Charlestown and South Boston, the center of busing-related violence last year, to be problem areas in September.
Leary, who will leave office August 30 after three years as school superintendent, answered questions for an hour and a half from a panel of four reporters, sounding discouraged about the strife that has accompanied busing in Boston and unhappy with the anti-busing Boston School Committee.
The blame, says Coleman, lies largely in the forced massive busing of students in big cities. When confronted with the possibility that their children will have to go to school with large numbers of blacks, many middle-class white families move to the suburbs or head for private schools. Says...
Coleman's latest study, sponsored by the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank, analyzed racial data and trends in U.S. public schools from 1968 to 1973. When only small numbers of well-behaved, well-scrubbed black children were involved in busing, Coleman says, white parents did not resist...