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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is exactly us - or DD isn't in school yet, but we live in the section of Del Ray this is mysteriously zoned for J-H, even though Maury is 1/4 mile away. Then there's a random section near the Braddock Road Metro (Parker Gray?) that is zone for Maury. This makes no sense.

[b]What can Del Ray parents DO about this?[/b] I want my DD to go to a school with diversity, but I want her to go to a public school that is actually in her neighborhood. [/quote]

Your chance to do anything about was last year when the school board had several community meetings on redistricting.  Did you show up?[/quote]

You took the words right out of my mouth! There were a number of community meetings and school board meetings on redistricting, not that any of it mattered. The school board will never invite the wrath of Maury and Lyles-Crouch parents by moving more low-income and minority students into those schools from Jefferson Houston. Maury and Lyles Crouch parents like the numbers just as they are--they can claim they send their kids to a "diverse" school, but it's not too "diverse" to be scary to them. Heaven forbid the majority of students are African-American!

I have no concerns about my own kid going to J-H. He'll be fine wherever he goes. My concern is for those 70% or more FARMS kids at J-H. A significant body of academic research shows that there is a tipping point (somewhere around 50%) where having such a high concentration of poverty in a school essentially outweighs all other well-intentioned efforts to improve academic performance. There are simply too many students with too many needs. This issue at J-H could have been addressed during redistricting by making J-H, Maury, and Lyles Crouch more equal demographically. But again, those Maury (especially) parents were not having any of that. I know--I went to many of those community meetings and school board meetings.
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100% incorrect. You couldn't be more wrong.

The PTA president of Maury even went to bat, multiple times, for the Del Ray kids attending Maury. So did Veronica Nolan, herself a Maury mom. Not only that, but the former went to bat AGAIN when the board came up with that asinine, completely arbitrary grandfathering regulation. Siblings of admins that matriculate are forced to leave,  but siblings of programmatic transfers get to stay?

WTF? Little Bobby has ADHD and cant do MVCS so he AND his sister get to go to Maury as long as they please!!?? Despite living in Warwick village TWO MILES away? Holy WTF?

Meanwhile, little Sam gets the boot from Maury because his admin brother graduated to middle school? And they live a 1/4 and have been at the school for 6 years? It's so ridiculously unfair that they will be seeing lots and lots of challenges.

In what world is that fair?[/quote]

It is not fair. But neither of those situations should have happened to begin with. Why not just stay at your zoned school for the house you purchased instead of trying to transfer? By transferring out of their home s hook, both families in your examples both put themselves at risk. Nothing was guaranteed.[/quote]

Why pay 10k a year and property taxes and complain that you're assigned to one of the 3 lowest performing grade schools in the state? That's your point?

We should just 'accept' that my kid will get an abysmal education while other people in the same town, paying less in taxes, and are further from the school closest to you, get to go there?

Really?[/quote]

Didn't you choose to move to a house zoned to one of the 3 lowest performing schools in the state? That was dumb.[/quote]

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