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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They talked about the River Terrace school and Young Campus as options at the Kingsbury meetings. I think that they were seriously considering a move east of the river. To be totally fair to the administration. But the attitude of the meeting was very much against anyone they perceived as a "gentrifier". Diane even made some crack about how "we didn't expect DC to gentrify so quickly".

However from the beginning there were "gentrifier" families interested in the school. Not sure why the attitude seems so against people they perceive to be recent arrivals to DC. [/quote]

The problem is when people arrived but the wealth. Diane and Cristina founded an elementary school in hopes of serving the kinds of children they worked with as teens at LAYC. But that would allow them to catch them earlier and give them a high quality education in hopes of preventing some of the issues those teens faced. They wanted to reach poor, underserved kids. Middle and upper middle class families of all races and ethnicities were never their target audience although they've been there since year one. [/quote]

It sounds like it might be time for Diane and Cristina to move on. Leaving aside the pedophile scandal, they have obvious animosity toward gentrifiers and because of the way HRCS work (middle and upper middle class people lottery for them in huge numbers), LAMB will just continue to be whiter and wealthier. Seems like it's time to turn the reins over to people who don't have obvious distain for those people. [/quote]

I think these types of conclusions cannot be drawn based on random bits and pieces of statements you hear here.  They don't have animosity towards gentrifiers.  Someone at the meeting from ward 7 or 8 commented about how they'd like to move closer to the school but for them it was a question of affordability and they can't afford housing near Kingsbury or SD.  To this remark Christina and Diane said that their focus had always been Ward 4 where there was a large hispanic population which would help with implementing the bilingual model.  But the city has changed on them and city is becoming more wealthy.  I don't think they used word gentrifiers or expressed animosity.  There were just saying that it was not their intent to locate in an expensive part of city and their mission was to provide good quality public education for low income families who it was not always accessible.  That is what I took from it.  I don't take it as animosity towards gentrifiers, but a desire to make good quality education accessible to all.

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I was there and the animosity came across. They said they were "tricked" by the city gentrifying. [/quote]

I don't consider using the words tricked by the city gentrifying the same as expressing animosity about it.  I think we all were tricked by it, I don't think anyone who lives in the city today expected 15 years ago that it would develop as much as it has.  [/quote]

And again I'm not sure they used the word gentrifying at all, but I could be wrong.  I thought it was tricked by how expensive the city has become. [/quote]

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