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See this Washington Post story on a Dunbar High School student’s challenges as a student at Georgetown University.

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Education
Traversing two D.C.s, from Dunbar High to Georgetown University
By Emma Brown July 27 at 5:35 PM

When Johnathon Carrington makes a trip home to visit his mother or get what he considers a decent haircut, the Georgetown University student takes a G2 Metrobus that carries him four miles east across a divide that separates the city where he goes to school from the city where he grew up.

He climbs aboard in one Washington, where he sees the uniform as polo shirts and Sperry Top-Siders, where he often feels on the outside of things, where school is a struggle and he wonders whether he can keep up.

He disembarks in the other Washington, where he said his Nike Air Jordans don’t stand out, where a drive-by shooting last year injured 13 people outside his mother’s apartment complex, where he was the high school valedictorian to whom top grades came easily.

The return trip from North Capitol Street to campus can be stressful. “There’s not a lot of people I can relate to,” Carrington says. “There’s not a lot of people who come from backgrounds like mine.”

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A year ago, in the days before his graduation from the District’s Dunbar High School, Carrington worried that his education in the city’s public schools had not prepared him for Georgetown’s academic rigor. “I don’t think I’m going to fail everything,” he said at the time. “But I think I’m going to be a bit behind.”
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