In the second episode of "A 'Bad' School," you'll learn more about the history of Iroquois High School — derisively dubbed "The Dirty 'I'" — and top-ranking Manual High School.
Both started out as very different places. Manual was founded in the late 1800s as a "training school" that taught students to use their hands and brain at the same time. Iroquois opened in 1965 and quickly developed a strong reputation for academics.
Iroquois was virtually all-white in the years after it opened. Manual had become increasingly Black.
But things changed drastically after court-ordered busing began in 1975.
Today, most Iroquois students are from minority groups and most Manual students are white. Iroquois students often come from low-income families, Manual students from the middle class.
The troubles of the outside world are much more likely to seep into classrooms at Iroquois, shaping what students like 17-year-old Zyrann Hibbitt learn.
But kids like Zyrann also find a web of support at Iroquois from peers and adults who understand them.
Did you miss episode 1 of A "Bad" School? You can listen here.