Article on Maury/Miner merger proposal

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“ It was hard to hear her neighbors say that “we were making this awful parenting choice by sending our kids to a Title I school, our neighborhood school,” Clark said.”

Literally nobody said that.

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“ Maury parents have it pretty good and are scared to lose it,” Parnell said. She believes “liberal hypocrisy” was at the heart of much of the opposition.”

Sorry, no.

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“ McMillan, who grew up on Capitol Hill, ultimately decided to avoid neighborhood schools altogether. She used the district’s lottery process to send her daughter to a school near her office that felt welcoming”

Lol OK. That sure is a story about support for integrating IB schools.

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“ Parents at both schools who believe diversity can go hand-in-hand with educational quality could step into that void, Giertz said.”

Why not just … try to improve educational quality directly at Miner?

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Anonymous wrote:Plus both schools are already quite large in size. No one likes behemoth-sized elementary schools. Left out of every article: They already also both feed together into the same middle school which has decent neighborhood buy-in.

Shhh that goes against the narrative of liberal hypocrisy.

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Anonymous wrote:
“Having our schools meet the needs of all of our kids and reflect our values is very important,” Jennifer Comey, the director of planning and analysis in the deputy mayor’s office, said in a virtual meeting with parents. “I know, as you all live in Capitol Hill, that this is also very important to you.”

So the mayor is admitting here they failed to meet the needs of Miner and the only way to solve that failure is to add more white kids? They have no other way to meet the needs of black kids?

Please add low SES black kids for clarification, not all.
And neurotypical white children. They want the ones you don’t have to give any accommodations.

So really just a failing message all around.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plus both schools are already quite large in size. No one likes behemoth-sized elementary schools. Left out of every article: They already also both feed together into the same middle school which has decent neighborhood buy-in.

Shhh that goes against the narrative of liberal hypocrisy.

What are you on about? They would split the grades at each school so it would not be all 800+ kids at one school.

Tell me how good conservative schools are doing for the poor? Oh they are worse. Got it.

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Anonymous wrote:
“Having our schools meet the needs of all of our kids and reflect our values is very important,” Jennifer Comey, the director of planning and analysis in the deputy mayor’s office, said in a virtual meeting with parents. “I know, as you all live in Capitol Hill, that this is also very important to you.”

So the mayor is admitting here they failed to meet the needs of Miner and the only way to solve that failure is to add more white kids? They have no other way to meet the needs of black kids?

Ever since the election of Gray, the only strategy for closing the achievement gap has been to drag the top down.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
“Having our schools meet the needs of all of our kids and reflect our values is very important,” Jennifer Comey, the director of planning and analysis in the deputy mayor’s office, said in a virtual meeting with parents. “I know, as you all live in Capitol Hill, that this is also very important to you.”

So the mayor is admitting here they failed to meet the needs of Miner and the only way to solve that failure is to add more white kids? They have no other way to meet the needs of black kids?

Ever since the election of Gray, the only strategy for closing the achievement gap has been to drag the top down.

It’s totally wild. As is Kihn’s basic admission that he thought nothing through. The implication really is that Kihn et al just wanted a feather in their caps and thought it would be easy peasy. Meanwhile DCPS elementary schools continue the abysmal downward slide in math and writing instruction. If anyone thinks that adding more lower income kids to Maury (which like all other schools has ditched textbooks, relies on computers, and fails to teach spelling and grammar) is some kind of educational solution, they are either lying or stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
“Having our schools meet the needs of all of our kids and reflect our values is very important,” Jennifer Comey, the director of planning and analysis in the deputy mayor’s office, said in a virtual meeting with parents. “I know, as you all live in Capitol Hill, that this is also very important to you.”

So the mayor is admitting here they failed to meet the needs of Miner and the only way to solve that failure is to add more white kids? They have no other way to meet the needs of black kids?

Ever since the election of Gray, the only strategy for closing the achievement gap has been to drag the top down.

It’s totally wild. As is Kihn’s basic admission that he thought nothing through. The implication really is that Kihn et al just wanted a feather in their caps and thought it would be easy peasy. Meanwhile DCPS elementary schools continue the abysmal downward slide in math and writing instruction. If anyone thinks that adding more lower income kids to Maury (which like all other schools has ditched textbooks, relies on computers, and fails to teach spelling and grammar) is some kind of educational solution, they are either lying or stupid.

They really believe that successful social practices rub off on kids with an acceptably low level of transfer the other way. I really don’t believe there’s an evidence of this, most diligent, successful kids are that way because their parents are that way.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
“Having our schools meet the needs of all of our kids and reflect our values is very important,” Jennifer Comey, the director of planning and analysis in the deputy mayor’s office, said in a virtual meeting with parents. “I know, as you all live in Capitol Hill, that this is also very important to you.”

So the mayor is admitting here they failed to meet the needs of Miner and the only way to solve that failure is to add more white kids? They have no other way to meet the needs of black kids?

Ever since the election of Gray, the only strategy for closing the achievement gap has been to drag the top down.

It’s totally wild. As is Kihn’s basic admission that he thought nothing through. The implication really is that Kihn et al just wanted a feather in their caps and thought it would be easy peasy. Meanwhile DCPS elementary schools continue the abysmal downward slide in math and writing instruction. If anyone thinks that adding more lower income kids to Maury (which like all other schools has ditched textbooks, relies on computers, and fails to teach spelling and grammar) is some kind of educational solution, they are either lying or stupid.

They really believe that successful social practices rub off on kids with an acceptably low level of transfer the other way. I really don’t believe there’s an evidence of this, most diligent, successful kids are that way because their parents are that way.

Sure, that is why there are nepo babies. Teachers have been telling them how, they just don’t want to do it. And for the life of me I cannot figure out why. Do they really not want all kids to succeed?

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Anonymous wrote:“ We try not to engage in that kind of promise making, because we have no idea,” he said. “It’s not clear what the benefits are for a model that hasn’t yet been developed, apart from the fundamental motivation, which is, kids are going to do better both academically and socially” in more diverse schools.”

Maury is MUCH more diverse than any of the schools that the elites of the mayor’s team and the ed policy journos likely send their kids.

Hate to break it to you, but reporters and civil servants aren’t exactly raking it in financially. These people hardly qualify as elites and probably can’t afford to live in the Maury boundary much less Ward 3.

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Anonymous wrote:“ McMillan, who grew up on Capitol Hill, ultimately decided to avoid neighborhood schools altogether. She used the district’s lottery process to send her daughter to a school near her office that felt welcoming”

Lol OK. That sure is a story about support for integrating IB schools.

If you read the context…she was saying she didn’t want to send her kids to Miner cause it might be merged with Maury and the whole debate turned her off the Maury community.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ We try not to engage in that kind of promise making, because we have no idea,” he said. “It’s not clear what the benefits are for a model that hasn’t yet been developed, apart from the fundamental motivation, which is, kids are going to do better both academically and socially” in more diverse schools.”

Maury is MUCH more diverse than any of the schools that the elites of the mayor’s team and the ed policy journos likely send their kids.

Hate to break it to you, but reporters and civil servants aren’t exactly raking it in financially. These people hardly qualify as elites and probably can’t afford to live in the Maury boundary much less Ward 3.

Paul Kihn is a former McKinsey employee and his kids go to private school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ We try not to engage in that kind of promise making, because we have no idea,” he said. “It’s not clear what the benefits are for a model that hasn’t yet been developed, apart from the fundamental motivation, which is, kids are going to do better both academically and socially” in more diverse schools.”

Maury is MUCH more diverse than any of the schools that the elites of the mayor’s team and the ed policy journos likely send their kids.

Hate to break it to you, but reporters and civil servants aren’t exactly raking it in financially. These people hardly qualify as elites and probably can’t afford to live in the Maury boundary much less Ward 3.

hate to break it to you, but Paul Kihn sends his kids to private, and the author of this bullsh*t article lives in … wait for it … Bethesda.