Article- How the Few Black and Hispanic Students at Stuyvesant High School Feel

Recently news broke that one of the top public schools, Stuyvesant High School, in New York City only accepted 7 black students out of 895 spots for the incoming freshman class.

In this article by The New York Times, current Black and Hispanic students are interviewed to showcase the inequalities they face within the elite school system as students from minority identities.

Through the students’ stories, the reader is able to gain a sense of the immense obstacles that are in these students ways to be even accepted into the school, let alone attend it.

William Lohier, 17, said it best,

“I have so much trouble believing that of all the top students in New York City who are able to change the world, and are able to perform the best in this really rigorous environment, that only seven of them are black.”

Click this LINK  to hear from the Stuyvesant students themselves.