Seattle schools got national attention on Friday night in an episode of HBO’s Problem Areas, hosted by comedian Wyatt Cenac.

The episode focuses on Rainier Beach High School, where the PTA has $2,000 in its coffers, compared with the $3.5 million at Roosevelt High School in the city’s much wealthier and whiter north end. In Seattle, rich PTAs enhance schools by paying for extra teachers and programs. When there’s a budget shortfall, the PTAs plug the budget holes. But that’s not a reality for Rainier Beach, where most of the students are low income. Here's why rich Seattle schools can afford extra teachers and fancy gadgets “They are able to hire additional teachers through the funds that they’re raising; we can’t do that,” says Gloria Briggs, the current Rainier Beach PTSA president, in the episode. “That’s not equitable.”

If there is any sign that change is a’coming, it’s when they kick out basketball and they’re like, ‘We’ll replace it with hockey.’ Wyatt Cenac, HBO's Problem Areas

Rainier Beach is entrenched in the community and known for its phenom basketball team, which won four state championships in five years. But the school took a turn in the early 2000s. “This area was getting bad,” Dajaun Rose, who graduated in 2015, tells Cenac. “It was like a school in the hood.”