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Anonymous
| I'm a bit torn on how to think about this. Can you elaborate on why you are opposed? |
Anonymous
I'm a bit torn on how to think about this. Can you elaborate on why you are opposed? |
Anonymous
DP. Because DCPS does a terrible job of supporting kids with behavioral needs. They’ll combine Maury and Miner resulting in higher needs kids at both schools, but provide zero support for behavioral challenges especially in the higher grades. Also it’s a long trek from the edge of the Maury zone to Miner. Like it or not, Maury is a stable school due to a decade + of high-touch parental involvement and combining it with Miner would basically throw that all away. |
Anonymous
+1000 The MS options on the Hill were totally unacceptable for our family. Ambitious kids need to look elsewhere unfortunately. |
Anonymous
| Slides on boundary study: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HYFnqqgJR0XVf8foc3qXHwKvvLbGz-8f/view |
Anonymous
| Nothing in these slides addresses what resources/programs will be made available for high achieving students, and what each boundary will do to make sure their needs are addressed. |
Anonymous
Come on now. Be honest. Your concern isn't an increase in higher needs at Miner, it is the inevitable increase in higher needs at Maury. |
Anonymous
Love how a majority of the ward-designated community members are from Wards 4, 7, and 8. There are 3 each from those 3 wards (9 people) plus 1 each from Wards 1,2,3,5, and 6 (5 people). Very balanced. |
Anonymous
LOL. Let's see: Maury is in Ward 6 and Miner is in Ward 7.... I am sure that the one person representing Ward 6 (incidentally, the largest ward in DC and the only one that touches all four quadrants of the city) of the 15 ward-designated community members will be able to ensure the right decision for Maury. |
Anonymous
Yes, I also noticed there are two Watkins ES reps and one Payne ES rep. Wonder if they'll be touching their boundaries? |
Anonymous
This study is a joke. |
Anonymous
It is on a slide somewhere, but the reason there are that number from various wards is because it corresponds to the percent of students in public and charter schools from each ward. Out of the entire city, I believe students who live in Ward 7 and 8 make up over half of the public school population, or something close to it. Ward 6 is physically big but proportionately the number of public school students in the whole city that live in that ward is not as high. |
Anonymous
DCPS does not care about this - including the high achieving students of color. |
Anonymous
Ward 4 should not be so represented. Many people travel to that area solely for the charter schools. We are in a charter full of ward 4 parents- low on education and high on opinions. They have too much power as it is. |
Anonymous
that doesn’t make sense - each ward has its own school boundaries. |