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Frankly, it serves one of the worst / most deprived areas of the city, Ward #8, also known as Congress Heights - Washington Highlands - Belleview (although Crime rates have fallen over a period of years, but are up again this year). My successful brother-in-law was in the first graduating class of the original Ballou, 1962 , before the area underwent a complete racial turnover in the mid and late 1960s, from white to black population.
If it's in a poor neighborhood, where did they get the money to build such expensive building. Don't they understand that expensive building does not equal high graduation rate and quality graduates?
If it's in a poor neighborhood, where did they get the money to build such expensive building. Don't they understand that expensive building does not equal high graduation rate and quality graduates?
In other words, separate but equal was a good policy?
If it's in a poor neighborhood, where did they get the money to build such expensive building.
Neighborhoods don't build, maintain and renovate DC schools, the DC public school system does. And I am certain they have a capital improvement plan for every facility under their purview.
All the ghetto schools in DC will eventually be overhauled because of gentrification. As the neighborhoods change, the schools system will get better teachers and a better curriculum to match.
As always in America.. no one wants to invest in the poor because they have no power or $$$ to threaten anyone with. Once the middle and upper class move in.. the schools are pressured to step up their game.
All the ghetto schools in DC will eventually be overhauled because of gentrification. As the neighborhoods change, the schools system will get better teachers and a better curriculum to match.
As always in America.. no one wants to invest in the poor because they have no power or $$$ to threaten anyone with. Once the middle and upper class move in.. the schools are pressured to step up their game.
Are you saying that they built this impressive facility in anticipation of gentrification forcing the working class out and replace with upper middle class?
they did the same thing to Dunbar HS off New Jersey Ave.......its a gentrified area but its still mostly poor and working class DC black youths at that school......my question is whats wrong with ghetto areas getting better school facilities esp if ghetto youth still attend that school?
All the ghetto schools in DC will eventually be overhauled because of gentrification. As the neighborhoods change, the schools system will get better teachers and a better curriculum to match.
Right now most of the gentrifiers either have no children or their empty nesters with grown children.....in addition the gentrifiers with kids barely even have elementary school age children let alone HS age......right now their sending their kids to private schools esp elitist ones as well as charter schools.......DCPS is still mostly black and some salvadorian youths from poor and blue collar families.....Its going to be at least another 15 years before that even starts to happen....in addition alot of the gentrifiers might go back to the wealthy suburbs and put their kids through HS there
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Originally Posted by Chriz Brown
As always in America.. no one wants to invest in the poor because they have no power or $$$ to threaten anyone with. Once the middle and upper class move in.. the schools are pressured to step up their game.
Most capitalist societies cater to the wealthy.....esp the US; however you grossly underestimate the organizing potential of the underclass masses.....but the top elites are HIGHLY aware of their potential, hence the numerous forms of propoganda to divide the underclass along racial lines, natives vs immigrants and what have you. Its why legitamite organizers of the underclass for better conditions are either bought out (union leaders) discredited or outright assasinated....the communist revolutions of Russia, and Cuba especially were the elites worse nightmares come to life (although the communist revolutionaries later became dictators but thats another thread) hence why the US was fervently anti communist during the cold war and overthrew the coup in Grenada and attempted to do the same in vietnam. its why numerous other forms of entertainment are pushed so heavily to the poor so they become apathetic and disinterested in the idea of true activism and revolutionary change.
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