Attn Maury parents

[Anonymous]

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

[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

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

[Anonymous]

If you want to go to Miner, you should definitely go. there's plenty of lottery spots there annually. I wonder why

[Anonymous]

Make Maury an early education childhood center. Miner is a big school that can accommodate Maury. Don't close Maury though just so it can become another charter school. How many elementary schools are on or near Capitol Hill? Some of the students could go to J.O. Wilson, Ludlow Taylor, and other nearby schools. What do the test scores look like at Maury?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to go to Miner, you should definitely go. there's plenty of lottery spots there annually. I wonder why

the idea is a Maury/Miner cluster. If Maury parents had some faith in their kids and the schools, it would be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make Maury an early education childhood center. Miner is a big school that can accommodate Maury. Don't close Maury though just so it can become another charter school. How many elementary schools are on or near Capitol Hill? Some of the students could go to J.O. Wilson, Ludlow Taylor, and other nearby schools. What do the test scores look like at Maury?

The idea is to cluster Maury with Miner, not close it. ECE would be at one campus and older grades at the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to go to Miner, you should definitely go. there's plenty of lottery spots there annually. I wonder why

the idea is a Maury/Miner cluster. If Maury parents had some faith in their kids and the schools, it would be fine.

Right because we all know that taking kids from a high performing school and sending them to a low performing schools will not impact them at all. You should work for DCPS! Or maybe you already do? LOL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make Maury an early education childhood center. Miner is a big school that can accommodate Maury. Don't close Maury though just so it can become another charter school. How many elementary schools are on or near Capitol Hill? Some of the students could go to J.O. Wilson, Ludlow Taylor, and other nearby schools. What do the test scores look like at Maury?

The idea is to cluster Maury with Miner, not close it. ECE would be at one campus and older grades at the other.

Great, let's accelerate the same dynamic that causes parents to quit DCPS before middle school!

[Anonymous]

Is Maury that bad that parents bail after Kindergarten? I thought it was a popular school that had really been improving

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Maury that bad that parents bail after Kindergarten? I thought it was a popular school that had really been improving

You're absolutely right—Maury is great and parents DO stay—but that will definitely change if it means they have to send their kid to Miner after Kindergarten

[Anonymous]

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

[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

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

[Anonymous]

Are there any more meetings on this any time soon? We are an inbounds (and were inbounds prior to redrawing the boundaries) family with a younger than school age child and are really concerned about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there any more meetings on this any time soon? We are an inbounds (and were inbounds prior to redrawing the boundaries) family with a younger than school age child and are really concerned about this.

I suggest you email Charles Allen ([e-mail]) Don't waste your time contacting DCPS. I hadn't heard anything about it until today and my family is also very worried

[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

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.