When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s wealthier residents, parents, students and educators fight for the elementary school’s survival.
Direction
Shaw lets the community speak, never preaching.
Editing
Tight 86 minutes—no fat, all feeling.
Director
Kevin Shaw
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film captures Chicago's 2018 school closure battles, part of a national pattern where majority-Black schools are 'consolidated' into oblivion.
The school's principal, Isaac Castelaz, became a local celebrity; parents joke he should run for mayor.
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