Attn Maury parents

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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?

all i know is that most people do not think watkins will be done on time, so an extra year in the awful Eliot Hine building

[Anonymous]

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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?

all i know is that most people do not think watkins will be done on time, so an extra year in the awful Eliot Hine building

Oh well, that sounds inconvenient but not a disaster in the long run.

[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.

I don't have a dog in this fight but agree with the PP. A "5 min" drive is a big deal in a walkable community. Being able to walk to school is MUCH more convenient than packing the kids into the car and driving them over, dealing with parking, driving back, etc.

[Anonymous]

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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

It's a 10-12 minute walk for an adult, so max extra commute is 30 minutes-ish taking into account the littles. That's not 45 minutes, but it's considerable. (Probably PP, having never had to make the walk before, didn't realize you could cut up Tennessee. If you couldn't, 45 minutes would be accurate.)

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]

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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??

It's a 10-12 minute walk for an adult, so max extra commute is 30 minutes-ish taking into account the littles. That's not 45 minutes, but it's considerable. (Probably PP, having never had to make the walk before, didn't realize you could cut up Tennessee. If you couldn't, 45 minutes would be accurate.)

[Anonymous]

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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

Charles Allen is zoned for Miner. Just saying...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

all i know is that most people do not think watkins will be done on time, so an extra year in the awful Eliot Hine building

Oh well, that sounds inconvenient but not a disaster in the long run.

sorry that your pre-schooler has to attend school in a run-down junior high for another year but hey at least according to 1 message board commenter it's not a disaster. With that attidude why bother renovating schools at all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Charles Allen is zoned for Miner. Just saying...

LOL AND WE HAVE OUR ANSWER, EVERYBODY!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Charles Allen is zoned for Miner. Just saying...

LOL AND WE HAVE OUR ANSWER, EVERYBODY!

Ok this is pretty funny.

[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

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.

I don't have a dog in this fight but agree with the PP. A "5 min" drive is a big deal in a walkable community. Being able to walk to school is MUCH more convenient than packing the kids into the car and driving them over, dealing with parking, driving back, etc.

If it takes your car 5 minutes to go 4 blocks, you have a very slow car.

Additionally, unlike most Hill schools, Miner has a very large parking lot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

all i know is that most people do not think watkins will be done on time, so an extra year in the awful Eliot Hine building

Oh well, that sounds inconvenient but not a disaster in the long run.

sorry that your pre-schooler has to attend school in a run-down junior high for another year but hey at least according to 1 message board commenter it's not a disaster. With that attidude why bother renovating schools at all

Ok so, you live in an urban school district, and you're getting your school beautifully renovated. It is inconvenient and perhaps not ideal to have to be in a swing space for two years, but pretty much par for the course. As long as the school is safe and has enough room for everyone, this is fairly petty to complain about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

all i know is that most people do not think watkins will be done on time, so an extra year in the awful Eliot Hine building

Oh well, that sounds inconvenient but not a disaster in the long run.

sorry that your pre-schooler has to attend school in a run-down junior high for another year but hey at least according to 1 message board commenter it's not a disaster. With that attidude why bother renovating schools at all

Ok so, you live in an urban school district, and you're getting your school beautifully renovated. It is inconvenient and perhaps not ideal to have to be in a swing space for two years, but pretty much par for the course. As long as the school is safe and has enough room for everyone, this is fairly petty to complain about.

TIL that it's petty to complain about the state of the building where your child attends school.

do you even have kids??

[Anonymous]

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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?

all i know is that most people do not think watkins will be done on time, so an extra year in the awful Eliot Hine building

Oh well, that sounds inconvenient but not a disaster in the long run.

sorry that your pre-schooler has to attend school in a run-down junior high for another year but hey at least according to 1 message board commenter it's not a disaster. With that attidude why bother renovating schools at all

Ok so, you live in an urban school district, and you're getting your school beautifully renovated. It is inconvenient and perhaps not ideal to have to be in a swing space for two years, but pretty much par for the course. As long as the school is safe and has enough room for everyone, this is fairly petty to complain about.

TIL that it's petty to complain about the state of the building where your child attends school.

do you even have kids??

Yes, I am a Maury parent and my child will likely spend a year or two in the same swing space as Watkins when they renovate. What exactly do you think the alternative is? I don't love it, but I'm not really following your argument. I haven't been there to check it out yet but I heard they made a separate playground for the little kids, so I'm fine with it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Charles Allen is zoned for Miner. Just saying...

LOL AND WE HAVE OUR ANSWER, EVERYBODY!

And he sends his kids to JO. So this moving Maury into Miner thing would be great for him. Cut down on his commute and he would stop taking flack about not sending his kid to his neighborhood school.

Ok this is pretty funny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Charles Allen is zoned for Miner. Just saying...

LOL AND WE HAVE OUR ANSWER, EVERYBODY!

Ok this is pretty funny.

And he sends his kids to JO. So this moving Maury into Miner thing would be great for him. Cut down on his commute and he would stop taking flack about not sending his kid to his neighborhood school.