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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish someone would run the ## and figure out how many IB students are not attending Miner.  If the whole neighborhood just enrolls in a Maury/Miner cluster, then we'll have a great, diverse, urban school.  People should not be so scared of change.  At the same time I think if this is DCPS's solution they need to sweeten the pot somehow, perhaps with a dual language program or a Reggio ECE program.  [/quote]

If it's such a fantastic idea why would they need to sweeten the deal [/quote]

Because people are scared of the unknown, and any incentive to get them to walk in the door is a good thing.

Please, this is our neighborhood school we're talking about.  Let's not make this about scoring cheap points.  The fact is that a cluster could work very well if people put aside their fears and their need to control everything. [/quote]

That won't happen. Look at Watkins. A large OOB population is going to keep in-bounds families away. The reason Brent and Maury flipped is in large part because of their small size, so they didn't need a lot of buy in to create a majority IB school. By creating a Maury/Minor mega-school all you're doing is screwing in-bounds Maury families. [/quote]

For the record I'm an IB Maury family and I don't think in these terms.  I don't think I have a vested right in my school, and I don't think sharing resources with another neighborhood school is being "screwed."  If my neighbors are so dog in the manger that they'll refuse to enroll ... well who's screwing whom?  [/quote]

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