Bussing often means that minority students have to travel well outside their neighborhoods to go to school. This travel can also be time consuming. What disadvantage of desegregation does this illustrate?

The question highlights that bussing requires students to travel long distances and takes up time. That travel can leave them with less time for homework and extracurricular activities, which is the disadvantage described in choice C. The other choices do not address the time cost of commuting.

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