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NO northern city has been more polarized by the busing issue than Pontiac, Mich. (pop. 85,000), a transient auto assembly-line town 25 miles northwest of Detroit. Last May, the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a district court order calling for the busing of 9,000 of the 24...
For Pontiac parents, busing has been a traumatic experience. "There is fear," says School Superintendent Dana Whitmer. "The whites fear the ghetto and the blacks fear sending their children into what they are afraid are Ku Klux Klan areas." The significant issue, though, is how the children have reacted. The...
Dorian Brooks, 13, is a black eighth-grader at Pontiac's Eastern Junior High School, a once all-black school that is now 60% white as a result of busing. A shy, pretty girl who would like to be a social worker, Dorian does not mind being bused. "I...
John Kindig, 13, a white seventh-grader at Jefferson Junior High, where the white enrollment has grown from 10% to 55% under the busing program, agrees. "All these adults keep telling us we're supposed to be against busing," he says. "They tell each other 'Burn the buses...
John, an A student who wears jeans and a T shirt bearing the inscription "The Devil Made Me Do It," is a founder of The Group, an organization of black and white students dedicated to making the new busing and integration program work. "The bus I travel on is all...