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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Well then you are foolish. Your home value is absolutely tied to the fact that you are inbounds for one of the two elementary schools on the Hill that people consider to be acceptable. [/quote]

Except that there are parts of the Maury boundary that are cheaper than parts of the Miner boundary; housing prices are actually largely driven by central-ness/crime on the gentrification edge of the Hill, so 13th & E is more expensive than 15th & A, typically, notwithstanding the school zones. Like, yes, there is clearly a small bump in value priced into houses zoned for Maury, but it's actually nowhere near as clear cut as you're making it out.[/quote]

15th & A may be about the same as 13th & E NE; but certainly the above is true of 17th & C, which is way cheaper than 13th & E (like 6 figures cheaper for the same house). The primary factor isn't schools around the dividing lines for Maury/Miner. Looking at Redfin now, it looks like only the Brent zone really has a per se bump built into housing prices, because you actually see an otherwise irrational jump at the school zone boundaries. Houses on 13th, on the other hand, don't actually jump in price between the C-D block and the D-E block despite that being the school line.[/quote]

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