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Bloomington’s Board of Education segregated Bloomington’s public schools soon after they were established in 1857. White children attended the better schools while black children were provided with a lower level of education.
Emancipated African Americans, Henry Crow and his wife Martha made their way to Bloomington from Kentucky in the early 1850s. When their children began school in the 1860s, they were required to attend the segregated School No.3, located 14 blocks from their home, even though they lived less than a block away from School No. 5.
In 1871 Henry Crow petitioned Bloomington’s Board of Education to admit his children to School No. 5.
Because of their ages at the time, it is possible that Crow’s children had completed the curriculum offered at No. 3, and that he made his petition at that time because he wanted his children to further their education.
If allowed to attend School No. 5, they could have taken more advanced classes.
What words here best describe why Crow's request was denied?