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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS included the Maury/Miner cluster as an option to deal with in-boundary demand, but it was originally proposed by Joe Weedon, the Ward 6 rep to the State Board of Education. Weedon wrote a letter to DCPS in Dec 2015 urging DCPS to explore either 1) a Maury/Miner cluster or 2) moving Maury's 3-5 grades to Eliot-Hine MS.

Weedon didn't do any meaningful outreach on these ideas to either the Maury or Miner communities, so I think there was some shock when DCPS floated this to Maury (and neglected to advise Miner that a cluster was being considered). Whether or not Weedon or DCPS should be blamed for bad process, both the Maury PTA survey and the DCPS survey show little support for a cluster now among Maury families. The well is poisoned, perhaps even more so by this thread.

I think Weedon is angry that people aren't lining up behind his ideas. His family has been at Maury since the early days of the PK program and he has a kid at Eliot-Hine now. I think he feels like he built Maury so he should be able to propose significant changes to the neighborhood school model. I think his belief is that these changes (along with the Eliot-Hine renovation) would convince more Maury families to continue to Eliot-Hine instead of bailing for Basis, Latin, etc. Maybe. But I can see how the risk-averse might need more convincing.

What has been ugly is Weedon telling people not to discuss the cluster idea on the Maury listserv, accusing anyone who doesn't line up behind him as a racist, and saying that people who support the cluster have been intimidated. He can get a bit heated when you don't yield to his ideas, but these are scorched earth tactics. At this point, I think the cluster idea is dead both for lack of support and Weedon's approach/attitude.

Weedon is now saying on Facebook that he can't support the additional funding for an addition that would accommodate Maury's projected in-boundary demand. I think this is about his hurt feelings, so I doubt he will come around to supporting what a majority of Maury families want. 
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I found the above post to be very enlightening about how Joe works. Does anyone else remember the earlier days when He was trying to build-up support for Elliot-Hine by advocating that Stuart Hobson should be closed? He claimed that in aggregate, the Hill middle schools were under subscribed by almost the exact occupancy of SH. Therefore to him, it was obvious that SH was going to be closed and everyone else on the Hill should be supportive of this.

Reflecting about his ourtright attacks on SH and Maury (two of the best schools on the Hill), I don't understand how he holds the position he does.[/quote]

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