It took a Freedom of Information request for students @TeensTakeCharge to get racial data on students applying to *screened* *public* schools in NYC.

Here's a quick summary of what they found. As you can tell, screens are used to segregate. 1/

#UnscreenOurSchools #IntegrateNOW

One ex, from Eleanor Roosevelt HS- 39% of applicants were Black or Latinx, but only 5% received offers b/c screens use criteria that is culturally biased.

Note: these 13 schools are different than NYC's 9 specialized HSs, which have their own, related problems w/ segregation.
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You can watch the full video here: https://www.facebook.com/teenstakechargenyc/videos/381253996608838/

Listen to the urgency in the youth presenters. Always bothers me that us adults have learned/been trained to discuss morally sickening issues in neutral language. 3/

Here's @TeensTakeCharge's list of demands- it's hard to see how the city can work towards integration without these. 4/

Last thing- if you listened to ep 5 of #NiceWhiteParents, you know that D15 in NYC removed all screens for its middle schools (which had absurd screens & loopholes).

As @cveiga writes, white families didn't leave D15 & the schools became more integrated. https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2019/4/15/21107953/two-nyc-districts-embarked-on-middle-school-integration-plans-early-results-show-they-may-be-making