Grosso comes out against a stand alone middle school for Shaw

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Anonymous wrote:This article helps explain, to me, why Shaw MS vs Banneker became such a flashpoint and continues to be hotly debated. Pls read it all before commenting or just keep moving along.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/black-branding--how-a-dc-neighborhood-was-marketed-to-white-millenials/2017/05/02/68b0ae06-2f47-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.cbf6eff08f01

I read the article all the way through. Make your point though. I don't see the connection.

So blacks resent the rebranding of their neighborhoods to appeal to edgy white millennials. MMk .....and? I agree Shaw epitomizes a lot of the tensions between longtime residents and black culture and gentrifiers but I'm still not seeing how this means Shaw MS should not exist there, given that its feeder schools are quite diverse as mentioned. Also, you presume this is not something that we (residents of such neighborhoods) talk about, think about, and even yes, do something about, on a local and regular basis.

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Anonymous wrote:I never understood the inside-out discussion of Banneker's location in Shaw. In some discussions it was a citywide school. In others it was a local Black institution in Shaw. Or would be if it was in a different place in Shaw? The tension there never seemed to resolve except in favor of whoever seemed to be making an argument at the time.

It is both a city-wide school AND a Shaw institution. Which is where the gentrifying part comes in. It isn't just about the new residents, it's the new, more upscale businesses catering to the wealthier newcomers displacing older businesses that can't pay the new rents. Those threatened or displaced business owners are also a constituency that the mayor and many on the Council are concerned about.

If there were another, large enough building in Shaw to build an EXPANDED Banneker on, it probably would have been on the table. But there isn't.

Explain to me how Banneker is a Shaw institution if it was not previously located there and how Shaw MS, which was previously located at the site (hence its name) is not a Shaw institution. And don't tell me its because the Shaw feeder schools have white kids because the kids are predominately black and Latino.

+1.

But good luck using logic and thinking when something involving AAs is at play

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I am just waiting to see which developer somehow comes out on top due to this decision by Bowser, because that is all she is about and that is the only way that the way this played out will make sense.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never understood the inside-out discussion of Banneker's location in Shaw. In some discussions it was a citywide school. In others it was a local Black institution in Shaw. Or would be if it was in a different place in Shaw? The tension there never seemed to resolve except in favor of whoever seemed to be making an argument at the time.

It is both a city-wide school AND a Shaw institution. Which is where the gentrifying part comes in. It isn't just about the new residents, it's the new, more upscale businesses catering to the wealthier newcomers displacing older businesses that can't pay the new rents. Those threatened or displaced business owners are also a constituency that the mayor and many on the Council are concerned about.

If there were another, large enough building in Shaw to build an EXPANDED Banneker on, it probably would have been on the table. But there isn't.

Explain to me how Banneker is a Shaw institution if it was not previously located there and how Shaw MS, which was previously located at the site (hence its name) is not a Shaw institution. And don't tell me its because the Shaw feeder schools have white kids because the kids are predominately black and Latino.

+1.

But good luck using logic and thinking when something involving AAs is at play

Racist much??

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The fact that people talk about Shaw as a white neighborhood is.....

A small group of parents who will be moving to Maryland in 5 years does not a white neighborhood make.

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Anonymous wrote:Also Elissa Silverman is the absolute worst. Completely tone deaf, pro gentrification and blind to the problems of the majority of her constituents.

I don't know about that. She has visited our title 1 school and attended PTA meetings this year. She seems like a good advocate for those that are willing and able to work with her.