Just like at Brook Park, almost all of the black students at Myers Park were placed in “standard” classes, while most of the white students were in “honors.” The most academically ambitious students were enrolled in the school’s International Baccalaureate diploma program. KiKi had never heard of IB before arriving at Myers Park, but she quickly came to understand that the IB classrooms were where the smartest kids in the school could be found, and so IB was where she knew she needed to be. Almost all the other students in her IB classes were white or Asian American, with a few students from
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