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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Y'all, can we just drop the LT discussion? Maury is much closer to Miner than LT is. There is no proposed cluster between LT and Miner. If they wanted to cluster LT with another school, wouldn't JOW be the obvious option?

I just don't understand why this is even a discussion. You can oppose the cluster without suggesting nonsensical alternatives that make not logistical sense.[/quote]

The cluster makes no logistical sense either. The point of discussing the boundaries is that the DME can achieve some of its racial balancing goals by better boundary changes, which it insisted was not possible. But anyone looking on a map can see that there are ways to draw the boundaries more inclusively. [/quote]

But this redrawing of the boundary -- whether you did it to Maury or LT -- would have virtually no effect on Miner. Rezoning one apartment building doesn't solve the problem. For one thing, it wouldn't have a demonstrable impact on Miner's demographics. But also, yes, if DME hadn't set its arbitrary limit of what difference in demographics was too much, the discussion would include L-T & JOW not L-T & Miner, which makes literally no sense. There is not a single reason that LT/Miner would achieve more of their stated goals or be a better logistical fit than Maury/Miner. The average distance between houses in the Maury and Miner zones is about half that in the Miner and LT zones because of how the IBs are laid out. The average delta between commute to LT v commute to Miner is about double the delta between Maury and Miner. This thread aside, there's a WAY better case for combing LT and JOW, which admittedly share many of the same features of Maury and Miner, than there is Miner and L-T.[/quote]

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