I did grow up in that era Raptor, I was born in 1962 so I was aware of, though unaffected, by the forced busing of the 60's and 70's.

Your questions are legit, but that's what we pay our political class to figure out. And to keep at, not just do it once and take a victory lap without assessing and reassessing to find points of improvement.

Private schools deal with all those issues, so they are not intractable. Public schools can contract with private bus companies so that one or two buses could theoretically pick up all the kids in a given neighborhood and take them to multiple schools. Not simple, I know, but not impossible. And again, as pointed out above, not every kid is going to take the option, at least initially. But if it works, more kids will and the busing issues become more complex. I would file that under good-problems-to-have.