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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/19/any-school-fail-without-adequate-support/

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Good op ed except the suggestion that Maury get preferential funding is false. [/quote]

Don't twist what is said. The op-ed simply states that Maury got a $52 million renovation while Miner struggles with basics like a functional PA system and usable field space. That's not an attack on Maury, it's a perfect illustration of how DCPS, and DC generally, tend to handle facilities issues -- they love to cut a ribbon on a brand new school, field, rec center, etc., but they are terrible at maintenance and essentially abandon facilities at a certain point, figuring they are past the point of repair and they'll just rebuild them later.

I say this as a parent at a neighboring school that is in horrible disrepair and has been for years, but because we are slated for a full-scale renovation in a couple years, good luck getting them to fix basic stuff like malfunctioning heating systems, and toilets/sinks/water fountains that work for maybe two months out of every 12. DC is horrible at maintaining buildings, and that's why Maury is nicer than Miner. It's just newer. Soon Maury will also start to fall apart and the city won't do anything about that either.[/quote]

No, it clearly implies that there is a funding disparity between the schools, which there absolutely is not. Miner was not due for a modernization, Maury was. And now the modernization of the old Miner building is underway. I will concede that it’s possible that Maury parents on the margin are more able to be a squeaky wheel to get maintenance attention. But if so, isn’t that DCPS’s fault for not having a better system? [/quote]

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