Did you teach in the suburban school district? If you did would you mind talking about what subject you taught and to whom (as in grade, gifted, remedial). How your school dealt with the incoming students, anything you noticed in class and/or outside (like PE, lunch, hall).

My husband and I were both bused and then I went to a school where we were not bused, but had children bused in. Our experiences were mostly terrible (especially my husband's). It was very eye opening. I had a bit of a better experience in that I ended up having a life long friendship with a girl who was bused into my school and am a godmother to her 2 girls (who are now adults). The schooling experience and safety situations were terrible.

When I was in HS I tutored middle school students from the town where my dad grew up (which was mostly black when he was growing up and is now more black/hispanic). It was shocking. Shockingly illiterate students, shockingly poor learning skills and attention spans and much more). I tutored children in a small town in WA as an adult. Mostly poor to lower income white kids. Same general problems with slight differences and to a lesser degree). Mostly all had BAD family lives.

Something radical must happen. Working within the current framework is untenable.