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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish someone would run the ## and figure out how many IB students are not attending Miner.  If the whole neighborhood just enrolls in a Maury/Miner cluster, then we'll have a great, diverse, urban school.  People should not be so scared of change.  At the same time I think if this is DCPS's solution they need to sweeten the pot somehow, perhaps with a dual language program or a Reggio ECE program.  [/quote]

If it's such a fantastic idea why would they need to sweeten the deal [/quote]

Because people are scared of the unknown, and any incentive to get them to walk in the door is a good thing.

Please, this is our neighborhood school we're talking about.  Let's not make this about scoring cheap points.  The fact is that a cluster could work very well if people put aside their fears and their need to control everything. [/quote]

That won't happen. Look at Watkins. A large OOB population is going to keep in-bounds families away. The reason Brent and Maury flipped is in large part because of their small size, so they didn't need a lot of buy in to create a majority IB school. By creating a Maury/Minor mega-school all you're doing is screwing in-bounds Maury families. [/quote]

For the record I'm an IB Maury family and I don't think in these terms.  I don't think I have a vested right in my school, and I don't think sharing resources with another neighborhood school is being "screwed."  If my neighbors are so dog in the manger that they'll refuse to enroll ... well who's screwing whom?  [/quote]

Collectivism at its finest. You must pay into the community school comrade but no of course we cannot guarantee you will get to enjoy it, it belongs to the community you see [/quote]

ummm yes, it's a public school? I don't love the way this is being introduced, but it's a public school. nobody owns it. [/quote]

I believe the point being made is that when parents invest time, money and energy into their neighborhood school, they develop an expectation that they will continue to be able to send their kids (and siblings) there. When you talk about redrawing boundaries or consolidating schools, it puts that at risk. No one owns the school. But neighborhood residents have a reasonable expectation that a fully-enrolled, successful school should remain a stable option for them to send their kids to. It's why many people purchased the homes that they did.

Imagine a loyal tenant that pays his rent on time for years and years. If the landlord decided to change the terms of the lease without warning, or evict him, everyone on these boards would leap to the defense of the tenant and trash the landlord. But when it comes to schools, everyone here has so much pent-up aggression, you willfully ignore the fact that Maury parents have a legitimate gripe with the poor planning, the half-baked idea to combine schools, and the awful way it's been communicated.

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How is it half baked? Seriously, other than white parents not wanting to merge with poors and browns, what are the cons and pros to this proposal? Only half of students IB for Maury choose to attend there right?[/quote]

Maury parents don't want this for the same reason most parents don't enroll their kindergartner in one school and then enroll their 1st grader in a different elementary school in the next neighborhood over. It makes no sense

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