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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on in, neighbor.  We are loving it.  Come to our Community Night at Spark on Friday, there will be a band!

It is not so much gentrifying as seeing a big uptick in middle-income kids and they tend to do just fine academically.  We love the atmosphere and Playworks and Foodprints.  And we love being a part of making it great.  Commuting sucks.[/quote]

I’m sorry but isn’t that the definition of gentrifying? The idea that the school is changing because it’s becoming more middle class and now more middle class families go there while other families are being displaced? (Don’t try to tell me people aren’t being displaced. The racial makeup of the neighborhood has very much changed) [/quote]

Not PP but I think the point is that there are more moderate-income kids, as distinct from high-income.

Langley has a very large buiding.  Nobody would dispute that housing costs in the neighborhood are absurd and people are being displaced.  But Langley can fit another 200 kids in the building and has ample OOB kids at every level.  It used to go up to 8th grade and now only goes to 5th so there is extra room right now.[/quote]

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