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Warren is set to graduate this year from Frederick Douglass High School. It’s a school where only half the students graduate and just a few dozen will go to college. Last year, not one student scored proficient in any state testing.

Is this another very poorly written article or is he actually graduating and going to college despite not being proficient in math or English last year?

Despite the challenges at his school, Warren found a path to higher education. He’s the reigning Baltimore City 50 and 100 freestyle champion who competed at the junior Olympics, finishing in fourth place. In the fall, he will leave the streets of Baltimore and head to Bethany College in West Virginia, where he will swim.

The path he found was being black and caring enough to apply. The article implies he was awarded a swimming scholarship, but that is highly unlikely on his swimming merits alone. He finished fourth at the Junior Olympics last year! Of course, that was the AAU Junior Olympics, which in swimming is not quite as good as the YMCA Nationals, which is not nearly as good as the USA Swimming Regional age group championships, of which only the best swimmers qualify for the Junior Nationals, and only the elite for the Senior Nationals... oh, and then there is the whole Olympics/Trials thing. So, he basically finished 4th place in slow competition... in the 400IM... out of 5 swimmers. Honestly, his greatest accomplishment appears to have been completing the 400IM without being disqualified (assuming the stroke judges were doing their job).