I grew up in the suburbs of Nashville, but was bused into the inner city to a school surrounded by government housing projects for four years. It was a ridiculous exercise in "diversity" that was a miserable experience. The high school I went to after that was a little better, but not much.
We were bused too (Omaha in the 70's - early 80's). Kids were bused to the elementary and middle school in our neighborhood then in 9th grade we were supposed to be bused to their school. Thank God we moved to Tulsa in my 9th year but my brother wasn't so lucky. He got his shoes (the ones ON his feet), a coat in the dead of winter as well as other items stolen. He was also beat up once.
I never had any trouble with the kids that were bused to our school but a friend of my mom's worked at the 9th grade school were we were supposed to be bused to and she said that it was hell to work there. There was one boy I had in art class who liked to touch my hair all the time, he liked me.

I agree that busing was a miserable failure.