WNYC: Graduating Seniors Offer Advice to their High Schools
A group of students wrote letters to the leaders of the high schools they are leaving behind, and they were blunt. Despite attending different schools with different academic rigor and student populations, they focused on two themes: the racial makeup of their schools and inequity.
"I remember a teacher saying he wouldn’t learn to say the correct pronunciation of my name and another one going as far as to call me an illegal refugee within school walls," said Yacine Fall who is Muslim, born and raised in Harlem. She attended Beacon High School in Manhattan.