Some students who live within the Walker-area travel almost three miles just to attend school. “I felt detached from the school because I didn’t even live in the neighborhood.”Īdditionally, students from the Evanston elementary school Walker are required to go to the Southernmost middle school, Chute, while there was often a closer middle school, Haven. “It was difficult to get to Haven because I lived further away than everyone else,” senior Jasmine Taylor says. This forced the students in the fifth ward to be bused to schools outside of their neighborhood. In 1967, due to pressure from local groups seeking to balance Evanston, Foster School, a school located in Evanston’s primarily-black fifth ward, was closed down. “No reparations were given for the black and brown citizens of Evanston.” “Integration should be certainly attempted however, it should be done correctly, and, in order to desegregate a city, you must make some type of amends,” Hill says. However, over time, the execution of busing in public schools has become subject to critique and scrutiny. The lasting effects of housing segregation in Evanston provided city leaders reason enough for busing in Evanston. “This has affected housing, schools and communities.” The gatekeepers of housing have almost always been upper-middle class whites who have used their own privilege and economic status at others’ expense,” ETHS English and History teacher Kamasi Hill says. “In most cities, redlining was utilized in order to ensure that property values remained the same or increased. Initially, it was the housing segregation in Evanston that that led to busing policy in order to integrate Evanston schools. “Busing broke up the sense of community, and it took a toll on the environment we grew up in.”Īccording to US Legal, desegregation busing is defined as the transportation of students to schools outside of their neighborhood, usually to achieve socioeconomic or racial diversity within segregated environments.
“My brother and I were both bused to Dewey, despite Lincoln being next to our house,” sophomore Megan Bezaitis says. Sophia Weglarz, Rachel Krumholz, Ella Kanter and Michael ColtonĪlthough the many historic attempts to integrate Evanston by means of busing were made with good intentions, the fight for integration within Evanston schools was not a complete success.
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