►
Description
Native Arlingtonian Kenny James remembers his school days in Arlington and the effect that busing and Arlington's response to Brown v. Board of Education had on the quality of his education. Part of the Tell Arlington's Story initiative. Taped at the Multigenerational African-American Storytelling Workshop. www.arlingtonstory.us
A
I
will
tell
you
real
quick
about
schools
and
one
unique
thing
about
schools.
Growing
up
here
I
attended,
drew
elementary
school
for
kindergarten
and
first
grade
just
around
68
to
1970,
and
my
mom
worked
there.
My
aunt
worked
there.
Many
of
my
relatives,
many
of
my
neighbors
people
from
my
church
worked
at
drew
at
drew
school
well
around
1971.
They
integrated
the
school
system
for
elementary
school
kids.
So
now
my
brother
and
I
we
went
to
tuckahoe
elementary
school,
which
is
way
up
on
the
north
side.
A
It
was
about
45
minutes
a
45-minute
bus
ride
for
us
to
get
there.
After
about
two
weeks
of
going
to
going
to
tuckahoe,
my
parents
sat
us
down
and
said
kenny
jimmy.
Do
you
want
to
go
back
to
drew
and
we
were
like
for
what
and
and
not
to
say
that
we
loved
drew
was
in
our
neighborhood?
We
walked
to
school
and
so
on,
but
we
were
like
mom
dad.
A
A
You
know
I
later
learned,
though,
in
life
as
as
a
grown
adult
and
when
I
was
when
I
was
in
in
college,
studying
about
the
the
supreme
court
decision
that
and
separate
but
equal
that
it
was
not
equal
and
I
was
living
proof.
I
lived
through
that.
I
just
didn't
know
that
at
the
time
I'll
take
you
back
about
10
years
10
years
ago,
when
I
was
still
living
here
in
arlington,
maybe
about
15
years
ago,
10
15
10
years
ago,
15
years
ago.
A
We
can't
have
that
so
we
had
to
to
always
fight
and
stand
up
for
what
we
believed
in
and
and
I,
and
that
was
something
I
learned
from
growing
up
in
arlington
and
with
my
family
and
and
so
on,
but
later
on,
I
went
to
williamsburg
and
yorktown
and
I
just
want
to
say
by
going
to
school
there.
I
think
that
helped
expose
me
to
by
going
to
school
in
north
arlington
that
exposed
me
to
other
parts
of
northern
virginia
falls.
Church,
mclean,
fairfax
rest
in
vienna,
great
falls.