John Jay High School

Bob Herbert's "Separate but Unequal" column in the Times a few days ago made me think of John Jay High School's misfortunes, which I've watched in my almost twenty years of living in Park Slope.

"If you really want to improve the education of poor children, you have to get them away from learning environments that are smothered by poverty," Herbert wrote.

Yet in the short film "The Ghosts of John Jay High," students discuss how isolated they were amid the Slope's affluence. And "Hard Truths at John Jay School" is a good recent commentary.