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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am no Weedon fan and plan to vote against him as he seems to only care about Maury and E-H at the expense of the rest of the Ward. That being said, he isn't wrong about the Middle Schools.

By my very rough math, there are twice as many seats in the MSs (800+600+800) as there are 4th graders in the ESs in Ward 6 (before the bail to charters etc) . If you were to reduce the seats, to me it does make sense to close the small school in the middle and divide those families between the larger schools that have more room. But given the amount of money that just went into the school and the up roar it would cause, I don't think you have reason to worry.[/quote]

I can't argue that there might be more seats than needed. And I would also like to have a "Deal" in Ward 6. I just can't support solving that problem by closing the single middle school that seems to be the best performing school in an area with a very low bar. [b]I feel the same about tinkering with Maury. Along with Brent, it is a bright spot in an otherwise mediocre landscape of ES's[/b]. Why risk damaging this by engineering an ill-thought-out cluster model?

Isn't one cluster on the Hill too much already?[/quote]

SWS outperformed both of them on PARCC last year[/quote]

And SWS is citywide, so what's your point?[/quote]

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