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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]

No it's a good, small school that doesn't want to be a huge school riddled with the issues that Miner has today. Miner has 20% homeless population. Miner has gone through three principles in the past few years. The Cluster is a disaster. No need to ruin a good thing because of poor planning.

- brown parent of brown kids inbound for Maury[/quote]

Miner isn't 20% homeless. It's principALs.[/quote]

Socio-economic privilege must be checked.  Discrimination in all forms must be opposed.

Disregarding human beings due to the fact they are poor are not the values held by companionate people that care for their whole community as opposed to their narrow interests.

I hope that those enabling the mentality held by many in the 46% never have to deal with the struggle of housing, food, or health care insecurity.  If you do face it, I hope you'll have compassionate people around you that will help you in your time of struggle as opposed to building a wall and caring only for themselves.[/quote]

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