Attn Maury parents

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that the DCPS is proposing to merge Maury and Miner together because the construction budget for Maury is not large enough to service the current boundary.

Here's why this is crazy:

1. DCPS just redrew the boundary 2 years ago for Maury and made it bigger. Now apparently it's too big. So this is a mistake of DCPS' own making
2. Everyone here knows the modernization budgets in this city are crazy but I've never heard of them merging 2 school buildings because of a tight construction budget. This is the same DCPS that has spent over $200 million on Duke Ellington, which has fewer kids than Maury and enrolls Maryland students!! So WHY DONT THEY ASK THE CITY FOR MORE MONEY INSTEAD
3. This seems like a thinly veiled attempt to salvage Miner, which has abysmal performance. But combining 1 good school & 1 bad school together =/= 1 successful school
4. I strongly doubt Miner parents want to be inundated with Maury families and I know for a fact that Maury parents don't want their kids to go to Miner

DCPS is asking parents to complete this survey. If you think this is crazy (or maybe you think it's great, IDK), I encourage you to take the survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdq-Y8TRjflX9ySc8x2ipkqgHOT8EafXNjKqQ1UKHxzlpTydg/viewform

For the record, I'm a Maury parent and fine with my kid going to Miner/Maury. I don't love the commute, however.

If you are suggesting that the commute from Maury to Miner is the only issue, I am going to go ahead & call BS on you actually having a kid at Maury. It's like a 5 minute drive. Less if you hit green lights. The distance is not the issue. It's the difference in quality between the two schools

Presumably it's the difference between being able to walk (or walk on the way to public transport) and not. Miner is the wrong direction for anyone heading to the metro from the Maury zone. Maury is a fairly small boundary, so the bulk of kids get dropped off on foot... The commute to Miner would definitely complicate that. It's not as ridiculous a consideration as you're making this sound.

So then you agree that school quality is not a factor but distance is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Peabody/Watkins cluster seems to cause issues, I'm surprised DCPS would want to repeat that.

Ward 6 is not allowed to have nice things like Ward 3 -- little school modernization and we get to be one grand experiment in how to NOT to have integrated schools by forcing too many changes down the throats of college educated parents, who will then flee. Way to go again DCPS and thanks for nothing Charles Allen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems that the DCPS is proposing to merge Maury and Miner together because the construction budget for Maury is not large enough to service the current boundary.

Here's why this is crazy:

1. DCPS just redrew the boundary 2 years ago for Maury and made it bigger. Now apparently it's too big. So this is a mistake of DCPS' own making
2. Everyone here knows the modernization budgets in this city are crazy but I've never heard of them merging 2 school buildings because of a tight construction budget. This is the same DCPS that has spent over $200 million on Duke Ellington, which has fewer kids than Maury and enrolls Maryland students!! So WHY DONT THEY ASK THE CITY FOR MORE MONEY INSTEAD
3. This seems like a thinly veiled attempt to salvage Miner, which has abysmal performance. But combining 1 good school & 1 bad school together =/= 1 successful school
4. I strongly doubt Miner parents want to be inundated with Maury families and I know for a fact that Maury parents don't want their kids to go to Miner

DCPS is asking parents to complete this survey. If you think this is crazy (or maybe you think it's great, IDK), I encourage you to take the survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdq-Y8TRjflX9ySc8x2ipkqgHOT8EafXNjKqQ1UKHxzlpTydg/viewform

For the record, I'm a Maury parent and fine with my kid going to Miner/Maury. I don't love the commute, however.

If you are suggesting that the commute from Maury to Miner is the only issue, I am going to go ahead & call BS on you actually having a kid at Maury. It's like a 5 minute drive. Less if you hit green lights. The distance is not the issue. It's the difference in quality between the two schools

I don't drive! It would add on at least 45 min to my commute since Miner is not near a metro. But maybe they would run a bus. If all the IB kids attended the cluster it would be fine otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Peabody/Watkins cluster seems to cause issues, I'm surprised DCPS would want to repeat that.

Ward 6 is not allowed to have nice things like Ward 3 -- little school modernization and we get to be one grand experiment in how to NOT to have integrated schools by forcing too many changes down the throats of college educated parents, who will then flee. Way to go again DCPS and thanks for nothing Charles Allen!

Unlike Ward 3 there is great income inequality and gentrification rifts in Ward 6. This is a totally different story. Also Miner is something like 70% OOB which could change rapidly. Also I personally am not afraid of Miner.

[Anonymous]

Instead of clustering Miner and Maury, why not just shift a big chunk of Maury's boundary to Miner? I know they're trying to appease families who would be shifted out of Maury by clustering the schools, but given how the Peabody/Watkins Cluster families are reacting to the loss of their bus, a Cluster seems like a big head-ache.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Instead of clustering Miner and Maury, why not just shift a big chunk of Maury's boundary to Miner? I know they're trying to appease families who would be shifted out of Maury by clustering the schools, but given how the Peabody/Watkins Cluster families are reacting to the loss of their bus, a Cluster seems like a big head-ache.

Why not budget the appropriate amount of money to renovate the building so it can serve all the students in its boundary? This city has wasted millions on construction projects for schools that have half as many kids as Maury. Look at that money pit Garrison!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Instead of clustering Miner and Maury, why not just shift a big chunk of Maury's boundary to Miner? I know they're trying to appease families who would be shifted out of Maury by clustering the schools, but given how the Peabody/Watkins Cluster families are reacting to the loss of their bus, a Cluster seems like a big head-ache.

Why not budget the appropriate amount of money to renovate the building so it can serve all the students in its boundary? This city has wasted millions on construction projects for schools that have half as many kids as Maury. Look at that money pit Garrison!

From looking at the presentation, it seems that there's a concern about having that many students on the lot size. Why not 'right-size' the boundary and the lot size so that you don't have to keep expanding the school every few years? It seems like Maury is heading the way of Ward 3 schools with constant overcrowding. Unlike Ward 3 schools, there is excess capacity in nearby buildings. And - no, I'm neither a Maury or a Miner parent, but

[Anonymous]

Why don't they just go back to the original boundaries (which were much smaller as I understand them)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Instead of clustering Miner and Maury, why not just shift a big chunk of Maury's boundary to Miner? I know they're trying to appease families who would be shifted out of Maury by clustering the schools, but given how the Peabody/Watkins Cluster families are reacting to the loss of their bus, a Cluster seems like a big head-ache.

Why not budget the appropriate amount of money to renovate the building so it can serve all the students in its boundary? This city has wasted millions on construction projects for schools that have half as many kids as Maury. Look at that money pit Garrison!

From looking at the presentation, it seems that there's a concern about having that many students on the lot size. Why not 'right-size' the boundary and the lot size so that you don't have to keep expanding the school every few years? It seems like Maury is heading the way of Ward 3 schools with constant overcrowding. Unlike Ward 3 schools, there is excess capacity in nearby buildings. And - no, I'm neither a Maury or a Miner parent, but

Because families like mine purchased homes with the expectation they could send their children to the neighborhood school. Having that right to the neighborhood school put in jeopardy every 2 years is not fair and no other neighborhood has been put through it

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know why the boundary was expanded? Didn't this happen recently?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why the boundary was expanded? Didn't this happen recently?

DCPS redrew boundaries a couple years ago. They probably expanded it because they suck at planning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why the boundary was expanded? Didn't this happen recently?

DCPS redrew boundaries a couple years ago. They probably expanded it because they suck at planning

Thanks. This is so surprising to me because Maury has been popular for a while now, its popularity is not that new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why the boundary was expanded? Didn't this happen recently?

DCPS redrew boundaries a couple years ago. They probably expanded it because they suck at planning

Thanks. This is so surprising to me because Maury has been popular for a while now, its popularity is not that new.

That's why some people think this is a poorly disguised attempt to reboot Miner. Never let a crisis go to waste right

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why the boundary was expanded? Didn't this happen recently?

DCPS redrew boundaries a couple years ago. They probably expanded it because they suck at planning

Thanks. This is so surprising to me because Maury has been popular for a while now, its popularity is not that new.

That's why some people think this is a poorly disguised attempt to reboot Miner. Never let a crisis go to waste right[/quote

Either that or DCPS is just that clueless. They both seem equally plausible.

[Anonymous]

This is a stupid idea.

-Peabody/Watkins Cluster parent