Parents protest proposed Wal-Mart…

…near two Prince George’s schools

Courtesy Chase Cook/The Gazette

John Nelson of Accokeek holds an anti-Wal-Mart sign while Tamara Davis Brown of Clinton shouts into a megaphone to protest a proposal to build a Walmart next to John Hanson Montessori School and Oxon Hill High School.

They’ve been fighting a Wal-Mart coming to their neighborhood for two and a half years, and parents of Oxon Hill High School students came together again Thursday to reinforce their message regarding the proposed department store: Build somewhere else.

The store’s proposed site is in between John Hanson Montessori School and Oxon Hill High School, which parents say would bring in more traffic and pose safety challenges for students.

“There is a lot of land in Prince George’s County,” said Accokeek resident Nicole Nelson, vice president of the John Hanson Montessori School Parent Teacher Student Association. “They can build it somewhere else.”

Nelson joined about 20 other parents and students holding signs on the sidewalk in front of Hanson Montessori, chanting in opposition to the store. She said the protestors have been fighting the Wal-Mart since 2011 and will continue to do so until the proposed site is changed. >>> Read more Gazette

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