Class Divide is a
film based on two groups of young people from the so-called opposite sides of
the tracks in the hypergentrifying Chelsea neighborhood. On the one hand, there
are kids like Rosa, who live in public housing. On the other hand, there are
the young students at Avenues, an elite private school across the street, with
swanky gyms, state-of-the-art technology, and Mandarin Chinese classes. The
Avenues students inhabit the same physical space as Rosa and her classmates,
but they live in a parallel universe. “The gap is just becoming larger between
the two [sides of the street],” Luke, a student at the school, points out in
the film. “Even though you may see just an avenue between each block, it’s much
larger than that.”
The documentary is told from the children´s point of view, both
at the exclusive school and in the projects. The private school kids are
insightful but in spite of all of their wealth, they feel tremendous pressure
to excel in a future economy that changes so rapidly they don't know how to
process it all.
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