Took a group of our high school students on a field trip here yesterday. They had apparently tried to cancel our trip but this message was not relayed to us. The exhibition was about hip hop and architecture, when we arrived we had a guide who awkwardly had little idea what she was talking about. We had teachers with doctorates in the the arts who could have guided their own students just fine, but there was a group of all white students ahead of us who hadn't been cancelled and right behind us they were taking a group of big donors through the exhibition, I literally heard them thanking them for the money they'd contributed. The whole thing was extremely awkward and disappointing for our students. For an exhibition that is supposed to counter racism in architecture and the history of hip hop, the irony of a largely black public school group getting the shaft was felt strongly. To add insult to injury, our second group was supposed to come today but was cancelled at the last minute due to "short staffing" despite us offering to do the tour with our experienced teachers ourselves. They apparently have no idea what the coordination of permissions, lunches, buses, and substitute teachers takes. I feel like the curators of the exhibition would be appalled. This is Atlanta, there was hardly a person of color in this space apart from us and one person in the donor group behind us. The disappointment for the students today not going is deep! No attempt by them to reach out and make things right, it's clear where their priorities are. This place is a joke.