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St. Mary's Catholic High School has some 600 students all of whom are Black females. Students are admitted without any testing for academic achievement. The primary requirement is that the student will agree to a rigorous testing of their abilities. In a typical year 100 per-cent of the students graduate and 100 per-cent are accepted into well-known colleges and universities. Early in the school year a math teacher challenged her class to work on a problem that was thought to have multiple correct answers. However, in the past 2,000 years, only one such answer had been discovered. Two of the students worked separately on that challenge for multiple months. Each arrived at a different, correct answer! For more information on this, to include more on the two students, see the following article. My information is based in part on the TV program, Sixty Minutes. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/high-school-students-pythagorean-theorem-trigonometry-proof-60-minutes/