“When we moved to discuss the gap in enrollment between Black and white students, a senior teacher said that trying to register more children of color for AP classes is inherently racist and that putting greater value on AP classes at all is an expression of white supremacy.”
They are beyond trying; they just expect material wealth in exchange for being born.
Here in NJ it is easy to blame unequal outcomes on bad individual schools, as they are so segregated (in terms of blacks) that you can’t get any comparison within any specific school. Whites are usually in school with Asians and increasingly, Hispanics; they don’t live in black areas and there are few if any truly “mixed” areas. The non-black schools still have advanced classes, and the black areas call standard classes “advanced” or “gifted” while the majority of students are written off - no effort is made to teach them at all, and only threatening the mothers’ public assistance even gets them to show up.