By Ninna Gaensler-Debs, KALW Crosscurrents
Willie L. Brown Jr. Middle School is the only noncharter public middle school in Bayview-Hunters Point. Sixty percent of the kids in the school’s inaugural sixth grade class live in the neighborhood.
For a long time, the odds have been stacked against these kids. Data from Bayview clinics from 2013 shows that almost 70 percent of youth in the area have been exposed to at least one Adverse Childhood Experience. Children with four or more of such experiences are more than 30 times more likely to have learning or behavioral problems in school. Plus, there’s a history of segregated schools there: The NAACP sued San Francisco Unified School District twice in the 1970s for failing to adequately desegregate schools.
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