Definition of "busing" []

• The transportation of schoolchildren by bus to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving racial integration. (noun)

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• "Once school districts begin busing thousands (millions?) of children to NFL games for field trips, then maybe the comparison will be a little more genuine."
• "Although the district had no plans to engage in busing, parents in the suburban districts were afraid this might happen."
• "The Seattle schools were never segregated, but the Seattle school system brought in busing for racial balance, and clung to that policy for years, in spite of the obvious damage it was doing to the schools, and to the city, something"