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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ANC 7D and 6A held a community meeting last night to discuss implementation considerations for the proposed pairing.  The idea was not to discuss whether it should be implemented, but rather if it is implemented, what needs to be figured out.  I continue to think the strategy of focusing so much on DME's total lack of any logistics planning will backfire on cluster opponents; once DME/DCPS has details like how shuttles will work in hand, I think it will be a lot harder to stop momentum for the cluster.

Apparently some concerns discussed were "how to keep conversation going in the interim" before the working group forms (and the idea of having a "pre-working group working group").  This is going to be a nightmare two years, isn't it.

One topic discussed was "community building" between the schools.  I wonder if cluster supporters will try to set up some of those activities before the working group forms.  It is a decent gambit -- Maury parents will look exactly the way cluster supporters want them to if they turn up their nose at attending events with Miner families.  But if the idea is to use these events to support the idea of pairing the schools, my family will not be participating.  (But maybe no one will try to set these up unless/until a cluster is actually approved.)[/quote]

what a waste of effort. how about spending that time taking a hard look at the instructional methods that are failing high risk kids? or behavioral approaches to actually be able to teach without disruption? no, these narcissists only get exciting by grandstanding about “equity” in ways that allow them to feel superior. [/quote]

Exactly.  What a tremendous amount of time and resources to have wasted (and, it sounds like, continue to waste) on something that I can't imagine will ever actually be forced through.[/quote]

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