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[quote=Anonymous]I mostly support the proposed maury-miner merger, because it would spread out the concentration of at-risk students at miner and also longer term increase neighborhood buy-in in the miner boundary.  But that doesnt mean that the majority of the families who came out against the proposal are necessarily racists.  The opposition was not remotely all that uniform either.  You have some families at every school like maury who think it is important to attend a “good” public school with high test scores because thats all they know.  They intentionally chose housing within the school boundary and would probably opt out of the combined school.  You have some people who are simply very happy with the school as it is and hesitant about, or even scared of, change.  the proposal was to combine with a school that has had all sorts of administration problems.  then you had valid criticisms about the size of the proposed combined school (neither elementary school is small) and all of the various logistical issues.  the dme did not have very much to support its proposal or a clear plan for how to make the combined school successful that went beyond a theory that school quality starts to suffer when the majority of the students at a school are at-risk and then a plan to turn all of the implementation details over to dcps.[/quote]

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