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Putting aside the blatant racism running through this post, it is misguided. As the DME has said repeatedly, Miner's IB population mirrors its current population.  Increasing IB participation won't change Miner's demographics.  Moreover, Miner has pretty good UMC buy-in for the early years. It doesn't for upper grades. Maury also loses some IB kids in the upper grades. Looking to the only other cluster on the Hill, we can expect this IB exodus in the upper grades to increase if the school is spread across two campuses.

Also, it's not "just protectionism" if families are advocating for a boundary redraw knowing they'll likely be zoned out.  No one expects the boundary to encompass Azeeze-Bates, but remain otherwise unchanged. [/quote]

[b]There's no blatant racism here.[/b] I'm just speaking plainly on the uncomfortable (and inextricably intertwined) issues of race and class that are at the root of this whole proposal [I]and[/I] the resulting controversy. In any event, approximately 64% of Miner students are at-risk versus 60% of the in-bound student population, so very close, yes, but Miner's boundary is 73% black while the school is 80% black. A mere 26% of in-bound Miner students actually attend, and it's common knowledge that many higher-SES parents lottery out of the school. Under the proposal, the at-risk population at both schools levels out at about 40%. Surely you see that increased buy-in from those 74% (not all of whom are UMC of course, but I suppose do care enough to lottery their kids elsewhere) could conceivably change the school's demographics and result in a school not suffering from a critical mass of at-risk students. Either way, with the lottery it is going to be an uphill battle to retain students into middle school.
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All I can say is that I’ve attended nearly all of the community meetings, and spoken to tons of parents, and I have never, ever, heard anyone mention race as something relevant to their support or opposition of this misguided proposal. Only under the cloak of anonymity on this forum do some oracles seem to be aware of supposedly obvious racism on the part of *checks notes* NE DC residents who send their kids to a public school. [/quote]

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