'Being predominantly Black and doing so well in a pool of predominantly white volleyball girls, we felt like we were fighting back against racism.' 'Now we have a different goal: Our goal is to try and be as diverse as possible, as inclusive as possible.'
It's been a pivotal year at the John Jay Educational Campus.
Each of its four floors houses a different high school. Millennium Brooklyn, one of the city’s selective schools, has many more white and Asian students than the other three. At Cyberarts Studio Academy, John Jay School for Law, and Park Slope Collegiate, the vast majority of students are Black and brown.
Sometimes, the Millennium Phoenixes and the John Jay Jayhawks faced off against each other – creating the kind of rivalry one might expect between schools in nearby towns – but in the same building, under one roof. The journey has been bumpy, as students and coaches endeavored to overcome decades of divisive education policies, unite the schools, and win.
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