Kids are brutal to each other, and fitting in anywhere is a process. Functional schools have order and normally academics and sports are the ways to make friends. White liberals just want to throw money at failing schools though, and burn the teachers out with mountains of unobtainable expectations for those environments. Google "Teach for America horror story" if you want to see how bad these places are.

In a functional setting, regardless of racial dynamics, she would have been accepted if she played sports well and helped her classmates cheat. Assuming, of course, she didn't snobbishly try to walk around with the white savior complex her parents had when they put her there.