Warner's Hope

The Promise

Nashville Public Radio

Society & Culture

4.9 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Warner Elementary is about to take its moon shot. After landing on the state’s list of lowest-performing schools, it’s aiming to make the list of highest-performing schools. Finally, it has all the right tools: an infusion of federal grant money, an energetic and experienced principal, and new class offerings that set the school apart.

But the real turnaround will only work if more students enroll — white students, specifically. And most white families in the neighborhood want nothing to do with Warner.

In this episode, Warner begins its uphill turnaround battle.

The Promise is written and produced Meribah Knight. Edited by Emily Siner, with additional editing by Anita Bugg, Tony Gonzalez, Samantha Max, Sergio Martinez-Beltran and Damon Mitchell. Fact-checking and research by Sam Zern. Advising for this season by Savala Nolan Trepczynski and Alex Kotlowitz. Mixing by Jakob Lewis of Great Feeling Studios. The music is by Blue Dot Sessions.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Just a warning to listeners, this episode discusses domestic violence and gun violence.
0:08.6	Previously on The Promise.
0:13.5	So, man, how you feeling?
0:15.2	Ready for fourth grade?
0:16.7	How is your summer?
0:18.1	A few down days and a whole bunch of up things.
0:21.6	If we have a great product that's creating great results that we have folks excited about what's happening at our school, people will come. He's singing.
0:40.3	He's singing.
0:45.8	Every time.
0:47.1	What do he mean every time?
0:48.4	Every time we do morning meetings, this is what he does.
0:50.6	He gets up there and sings, he dances with him.
0:53.6	It's every time.
0:55.0	We're back at Warner Elementary.
0:57.0	It's a Friday assembly in the spring of 2019.
1:01.0	A very different time, I know.
1:03.0	Kids are filing into the school auditorium.
1:05.0	Some sit cross-legged on the floor, bopping their heads and singing to the music,
1:10.0	talking with their friends.
1:11.8	As they settle in, the school's principal, Ricky Gibbs, lip sinks, and dances.
1:16.7	He does the lean back, the shoulder bounce, the whip.
1:20.0	He flashes a smile.
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