3: ‘This Is Our School, How Dare You?’

Nice White Parents

Serial Productions & The New York Times

Society & Culture, Education

4.1 • 25.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We saw what happens when white families come into the school. What happens when they stay out?

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0:00.0	Nice White Parents is brought to you by Ciro Productions, a New York Times company.
0:05.2	I used to 93 opened in 1968.
0:10.1	Renee Flowers was part of the first generation of students to walk in the door.
0:14.6	And you're talking about the building on Court Street.
0:16.6	I went to school there.
0:17.6	It was nice.
0:18.6	And it was brand new, you know, it was nice.
0:20.7	Were you nervous about going?
0:22.7	Yeah.
0:23.7	Well, your friends.
0:24.7	You know, all your friends were in the neighborhood with me.
0:26.8	The Goannas neighborhood where Renee grew up.
0:29.4	And still lives, the housing project's three blocks away from the school.
0:33.8	Renee went to IS293, graduated.
0:37.2	And she kept going back to the building, to play handball, to vote, to attend graduations.
0:43.4	Renee coaches the neighborhood drill team and they'd perform at the school.
0:47.0	For years, she'd regularly go watch the basketball tournament.
0:51.1	Renee is in her 60s.
0:52.8	She's just retired from the post office.
0:55.4	The school has been a fixture for most of her life.
0:59.0	Renee knows every part of the building.
1:01.2	Actually, if you go on the Baltic Street entrance, the school safes, you sit in.
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