Majority black high school grapples with demographic changes
May 17, 2019
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Earlier this school year during an American history class at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy, veteran teacher Deborah Etterling fielded a concern from a student unlike any other she had encountered in her 32 years at the school.
A black male sophomore had seen a group of prospective sixth graders at a Lincoln Prep open house event and was shocked.
"He said the majority of the students were white," Etterling recalled as she leaned against her desk at the front of her cozy classroom.
"He said it was going to change the way that Lincoln is."
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