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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School boundaries should be according to proximity to the schools, like everyone within 2 mile radius, not according to social engineering experiments. People buy homes for schools and any loss in home values is a hit on retirement funds.[/quote]

This might make sense in whatever suburban school district you live in, but makes no sense at all in this specific situation. These schools are .5 miles apart and feed to the same middle school and high school. Yes, some people buy inbound for Maury because they like the school, but they do so knowing that the MS and HS are not well regarded and that the other elementaries that feed into that MS, specifically, are not highly regarded (not just Miner, but Payne as well). [b]Since boundaries can shift with populations, presumably these folks knew there was a reasonable chance they could be zoned away from Maury.[/b]

Many of the opponents to the cluster actually advocate in favor of moving the boundaries to address demographic inequities instead. However, I think this is often suggested because the person saying it believes they will be on the "winning" side of a redraw, since those who would be rezoned to Miner would see a more dramatic loss in property values than anyone who winds up in a cluster school.[/quote]

Yes, but anyone who lives reasonably close to Maury and planned to attend for PK3-5th almost certainly didn't plan on going to a different school AND a different building. The Cluster proposal is way different than a boundary redraw plan with just a few months notice.[/quote]

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