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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly if I were a Miner parent, I'm not sure I'd be super enthused about this. The logistics problems are real. Miner itself will probably get *less* money due to demographics. Then you get to (or rather, have to) go to Maury, but not Maury as it currently exists, instead it'll be Maury with worse test scores and worse behaviors. Sure, just about anything's better than Miner, but right now, Miner parents stand a good chance of lotterying into Ludlow-Taylor and Watkins in upper grades, or any number of other schools. Even Brent makes a few offers. By-right access to a worse version of Maury doesn't really feel like an upgrade over what's currently de facto available, considering the other disadvantages of the Cluster proposal.

It's funny how making changes to Miner to help with basic functioning, performance, and retention is not on the table here at all.[/quote]

Nice try, but no. Just as I can see why Maury families would oppose this plan, it's pretty obvious that the cluster stands to be an upgrade for both current Miner families and families IB for Miner who have younger kids. Even just as a potential option.

Right now I don't know a single Miner IB family who is actually enthusiastic about the idea of sending them to Miner's upper grades. ECE is fine, upper grades not so much. Every one of them would prefer a cluster to that option. And the lottery exists as an alternative no matter what happens. It's not like they lose the option to lottery if the cluster goes through.[/quote]

Fine, I just don't think it's really that great. If you get your older kid into a different school, likely the younger kid gets pulled in too, so no more two-school logistics. And I don't think the new Maury would be any better than Ludlow-Taylor or Brent. It's probably better than Payne and Watkins, but hard to say for sure.[/quote]

It would be better for IB families because it would be their by right school.

Having a decent by right school is gold. If you've always had that, you might not understand. You might think "whatever, just lottery, you'll get in somewhere."

We aren't IB for Miner but we are IB for another school with similar struggles and if someone told me that we could have IB rights to Watkins or Payne, it would be an upgrade over our current situation. Even if ultimately we lotteried elsewhere. Just knowing your kid can go to an okay school with out major issues through elementary is huge.[/quote]

I have not always had that. I don't have that right now and I have never had that. I'm just someone who understands how to look at the lottery data and believes that if you try for a few years, you'll get into something equally as good as this imaginary cluster.[/quote]

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