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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t now anything about these schools, but why people do not support this? Is it because  it will increase the at risk % at their school?[/quote]

Why have one bad school when you can have two and split your children between both of them for an even worse drop off pickup schedule?[/quote]

Yes better to have one good school and one absolutely terrible school, as long as your kid attends the good school.[/quote]

There are ways to make it less terrible

1) Good principal who isn't slapping the kids or sleeping with anyone who works there.
2) More money

I know it sounds crazy.[/quote]

And adjust the boundaries to fix the > 50 percentage point difference in SES between the two? [/quote]

Fine with me, but it won't really help without a good permanent principal. And what happens when you alter the demographics is that Miner might get *less* money, maybe even lose Title I status, so I'm not sure that's going to be as big a change as you hope.[/quote]

I think you are putting way more faith in a principal here.

A single great principal cannot turn around a school on their own. Miner has failed its community for too long and has no IB buy in and even families who tried for years to help have fled the school in recent years. Who will the principal work with?[/quote]

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