Report Card

August 10, 2023

In the mid-2000s, Kendra James was the first African American legacy student at the Taft School, an upper-crust boarding school in Connecticut. The young James had visited the school during her father’s reunions, which gave her a sense of connection and familiarity, yet nothing prepared her—not her middle-class suburban life, her New Jersey public school education, or her upbringing by college-educated parents—for the ordeal of her three years at Taft.