Editing Desegregation busing (section)

===White flight and private schools===
Busing is claimed to have accelerated a trend of middle-class relocation to the suburbs of metropolitan areas.<ref name="'70s 252" /> Many opponents of busing claimed the existence of "[[white flight]]" based on the court decisions to integrate schools.<ref name="'70s 252" /> Such stresses led white middle-class families in many communities to desert the public schools and create a network of private schools.<ref name="'70s 252" />

During the 1970s, ''[[60 Minutes]]'' reported that some members of Congress, government, and the press who supported busing most vociferously sent their own children to private schools, including Senator [[Ted Kennedy]], [[George McGovern]], [[Thurgood Marshall]], [[Phil Hart]], [[Ben Bradlee]], Senator [[Birch Bayh]], [[Tom Wicker]], [[Philip Geyelin]], and [[Donald M. Fraser|Donald Fraser]].<ref name="'70s 252" /> Many of the judges who ordered busing also sent their children to private schools.<ref name="'70s 252" />