Chalkbeat: What it’s like for the middle schoolers at the forefront of Brooklyn’s integration push
In the mornings, the B61 city bus in Brooklyn feels like a school bus, filled with students criss-crossing District 15.
Sixth-grader Melina Mays climbs aboard in Red Hook, along with her neighbors and friends. Many peel off along the way, heading towards schools that have been considered the district’s most coveted, like Park Slope’s M.S. 51 and South Slope’s New Voices. But 11-year-old Melina continues on, catching a second bus that drops her off at Sunset Park Prep, about an hour away from home by public transit.