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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

[b]What can Del Ray parents DO about this?[/b] I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood. [/quote]

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting.  Did you show up?[/quote]

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.
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Any chance they would consider a School-Within-a-School at J-H for high achieving kids? I come from a high/low income district (in another state), and I just went to the SWS for elementary, middle and high school. [/quote]

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