Still more background . . .
"In 1959, five years after the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling that separate but equal schooling is inherently unequal and unconstitutional, Alexandria formally desegregated its public school system. But, inequities in the diversity of neighborhood populations caused the school system to slowly migrate toward racial imbalance. In 1971, the Supreme Court ruling on the Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case legitimized busing as a method to achieve desegregation. Alexandria adopted the K6-2-2-2 Plan (Kindergarten through sixth grade at one school, two years in middle school, two years in Junior High School and two years in Senior High School) to bring racial and economic balance to its school system. Two High Schools, George Washington (GW) and Francis Hammond (FH) were changed to Junior High Schools and T.C. Williams High School (TCW) became the Senior High School. All the city’s freshman and sophomores were divided between GW and FH, all the juniors and seniors attended TCW."
From "The Original Titans"
I told you the background to this story is complicated.
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