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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never understood the inside-out discussion of Banneker's location in Shaw.[b] 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? [/b]The tension there never seemed to resolve except in favor of whoever seemed to be making an argument at the time.[/quote]

It is both a city-wide school AND [b]a Shaw institution[/b]. 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.

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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.[/quote]

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