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

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.

Good grief. It's 4 blocks away. How in the world would that add 45 minutes to your commute??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a stupid idea.

-Peabody/Watkins Cluster parent

Please consider filling out the survey, and telling other Peabody/Watkins parents!! This is a mess. Here is the link again: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdq-Y8TRjflX9ySc8x2ipkqgHOT8EafXNjKqQ1UKHxzlpTydg/viewform

[Anonymous]

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

I'm sure DCPS expanded it out of some misplaced desire for parity while they were busy shrinking Deal, Wilson and other boundaries at more affluent, desirable schools. So their liberal fantasy of expanding an already-overcrowded good school likely now means yanking it back from those same less affluent folks on hill east. But instead of facing reality, they throw out an even more crazy liberal fantasy ... merging 1 good school and 1 bad school and the result will be 1 amazing school! /s

[Anonymous]

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

OP, if you look at the slides that were linked to the survey, it shows that parents have already been surveyed and responses compiled. Plus this already went out to Maury families on Maury's list serv. What is the actual intent of your post? Seems like the school list serv would be a better way to reach more families.

[Anonymous]

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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

But you'll have a neighborhood school either way even if boundary is re-drawn.

[Anonymous]

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

OP, if you look at the slides that were linked to the survey, it shows that parents have already been surveyed and responses compiled. Plus this already went out to Maury families on Maury's list serv. What is the actual intent of your post? Seems like the school list serv would be a better way to reach more families.

The survey is open until this Friday, Feb 3rd. See here: http://mauryelementary.com/maury-modernization/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Good grief. It's 4 blocks away. How in the world would that add 45 minutes to your commute??

Ok fine, more like 25 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Good grief. It's 4 blocks away. How in the world would that add 45 minutes to your commute??

Ok fine, more like 25 minutes.

25 minutes for 4 blocks? I'm my world, we call this "putting extras on it."

[Anonymous]

I cannot believe this. And our only representative is the worthless Charles Allen. The same guy who has never done a thing but make the Hill a totally worse place to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe this. And our only representative is the worthless Charles Allen. The same guy who has never done a thing but make the Hill a totally worse place to live.

DCPS has been wasting tens of millions of dollars renovating buildings that are half empty across the city because they're too PC to close underenrolled schools when they're located in low-income neighborhoods. When they actually have a popular, diverse, successful school like Maury, now they suddenly decide to save a few construction bucks! It's insane.

Any self respecting council member would have put a stop to this immediately. Paging Charles Allen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe this. And our only representative is the worthless Charles Allen. The same guy who has never done a thing but make the Hill a totally worse place to live.

I don't have particularly strong feelings about Charles Allen but in my experience he is a nice guy who shows up and is very receptive to constituents' complaints. He is also on the right side of most local issues I care about. But I see a comment with almost this exact phrasing every time his name comes up here. Are you a political rival or something? It's really strange.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

But you'll have a neighborhood school either way even if boundary is re-drawn.

This commenter seems to believe all neighborhood schools are equally good. How is it living in fantasy land

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe this. And our only representative is the worthless Charles Allen. The same guy who has never done a thing but make the Hill a totally worse place to live.

I don't have particularly strong feelings about Charles Allen but in my experience he is a nice guy who shows up and is very receptive to constituents' complaints. He is also on the right side of most local issues I care about. But I see a comment with almost this exact phrasing every time his name comes up here. Are you a political rival or something? It's really strange.

I think by and large Charles Allen is a nice guy. But in this city, you unfortunately need a representative who will shamelessly lobby and fight for what's best your ward, or else the city bureaucracy will run roughshod over your neighborhood. Just look at what they're doing to Maury and the craziness with Watkins relocation. Or the state of 17th street. For comparison, there is no way that Mary Cheh would stand for this craziness in ward 3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Good grief. It's 4 blocks away. How in the world would that add 45 minutes to your commute??

Ok fine, more like 25 minutes.

25 minutes for 4 blocks? I'm my world, we call this "putting extras on it."

with a small child it's about a 15 min walk from Maury, which then adds
at least 10 minutes transport to work. It's not a huge amount of time but like many people we have to closely script our days, so those 25 mins mean the difference between reading some extra books at bedtime, cooking a meal, getting to the gym ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe this. And our only representative is the worthless Charles Allen. The same guy who has never done a thing but make the Hill a totally worse place to live.

I don't have particularly strong feelings about Charles Allen but in my experience he is a nice guy who shows up and is very receptive to constituents' complaints. He is also on the right side of most local issues I care about. But I see a comment with almost this exact phrasing every time his name comes up here. Are you a political rival or something? It's really strange.

I think by and large Charles Allen is a nice guy. But in this city, you unfortunately need a representative who will shamelessly lobby and fight for what's best your ward, or else the city bureaucracy will run roughshod over your neighborhood. Just look at what they're doing to Maury and the craziness with Watkins relocation. Or the state of 17th street. For comparison, there is no way that Mary Cheh would stand for this craziness in ward 3

I thought the Watkins relocation was going fine?