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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i support integrated schools but the combined maury/miner elementary school would have been too large to be effective.  think 140 kids and 6+ classrooms per grade.  you also have a lot of younger families that very intentionally chose to buy homes in the maury zone.  if you like the neighborhood but want to more fully avoid those types, id maybe look at payne.[/quote]

The proposal was stupid and poorly thought out. Everyone is fine with boundary adjustments, but the proposal here was a bizarre "paired school" nightmare that would have increased transitions (a bad thing) and increased logistical challenges especially for families with multiple children (a thing that would obviously disproportionately affect the chronically truant families they presumably were trying to help). DME could not point to one example of the proposed model working.

That said, I found the opposition to be very civil (and more civil, frankly, then the proponents who suggested that opposition itself made you a racist). [/quote]

My big objection to the plan was that it was totally contentless when it came to actually improving educational outcomes. Just a total fairy tale based on a belief that whiter schools are better for black kids. which … yeah. [/quote]

It has been obvious to anyone who has sat in a single DCPS meeting dating back to the Gray administration that the only plan to close the achievement gap is to drag the top down. The proposal was another pass at that effort. [/quote]

I don’t think their plan even was that coherent! I would have respected it more if they said “we’re going to put more resources into remediation and cut the specials teachers” or whatever. Not that I would have agreed with that but at least it would have been something other than “white kids are Magic.”  [/quote]

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