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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get why the White Miner families leading the charge here are in favor of the proposal. Do they think the Maury families won’t leave immediately? What Maury do they think they’ll get? So naive. They’d rather bring down all of us than face up to the fact that they should’ve bought in bounds for a better school. Grow up. [/quote]

I think the assumption/belief that ALL the IB white families will leave is naive. There are white families who send their kids to Payne, Watkins, JO Wilson, Tyler, Van Ness. And those schools don't have Maury's history.

A lot of people just want a decent IB school. Yes, there are families that bought IB for Maury expressly to get the school. I personally think this is a little nuts give the MS/HS situation, but people can do what they want. But there are plenty of parents who don't need "the best" elementary school (especially when "best" is measured simply by percentage of white and high SES families). They just want a decent school. I think Maury will still be that for a lot of families now IB, even with the cluster, and then you will get a lot of interest from IB families from the Miner catchment who currently feel like Miner doesn't meet their threshold for "decent."

There are also likely white and high SES families in the surrounding area who would be willing to give the cluster a shot over their IB. Thinking of people IB for Wheatley, in particular -- that's not a bad commute and it's a big upgrade for them because Wheatley is a PK-8 school and very few people want to send their kids there for MS. EH might not be good enough for a lot of Hill East families, but it's a step up from Wheatley.[/quote]

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