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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There could be sound reasons for combining the schools but “diversity” isn’t one. Maybe they could allow Miner kids to participate in Maury-based after school programs and provide transport to and fro.

But academic outcomes (at least gaps) are the result of out-of-school factors so don’t expect any changes there.

On the flip side, I highly doubt there will be an appreciable academic downsides for the Maury kids, notwithstanding the logistical wrinkles that need to be ironed out. So it doesn’t seem to make much sense, but not sure I’d muster the energy to oppose it on the Maury side. [/quote]

I oppose it from the Maury side not because the populations will be combined, but because there will be two campuses. I think it would negatively impacts kids across the socio-economic spectrum to transition between two schools with relatively large student populations. Kids will fall through the cracks.  I think it would lead to attrition as seen at Watkins, negatively impacting Eliot-Hine. If there were miraculously a giant school that could house all the kids, I would support combining the schools.[/quote]

I agree with the concerns about the two campuses.  I do still have reservations about combining the schools in the absence of tracked classrooms/some sort of GT program.  If you combined Maury and Miner last year, Maury students in the upper grades would go from being in classrooms where ~70% are scoring proficient on PARCC to classrooms which are just ~50% proficient, with fully a quarter of the class scoring level 1.  If I'm a parent with options, I'm not sure I'd sign my kid up for that.  I don't see how a single classroom could possibly offer adequate attention to either the high scoring or low scoring students in that scenario.[/quote]

yes, this is the whole issue. it’s pure fantasy to claim a teacher can “differentiate” in this scenario. [/quote]

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