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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Talk with ANY of the Peabody/Watkins parents and then talk with any of the LT parents and you will see why a cluster is not a great idea.[/quote]

... for Maury parents. The whole point is that Miner parents stand to benefit.

Everyone understands why Maury families are opposed. Miner is a mess. The kids at Miner (and IB for Miner) deserve a functional school. The cluster > the status quo, so they are going to support it.

The only way around it is to propose something else that would improve the status quo for them. But "more money and a new principal" isn't it. Nor are at risk set asides at Maury.

People are not going to work against their own interest. A cluster is presently the best option for Miner IB families' interest.[/quote]

Re-drawing the boundary and choice sets are other viable options that are far less disruptive.  I really feel for kids from both schools during the transition if this goes through.[b] Some kids will get shuffled between three campuses, possibly more if a swing space is needed.[/b] [/quote]

My child is in prek3 at Miner. We are inbounds for Maury. If this goes through with a school year 2026 - 2027 implementation date, dc would be shuffled between the two campuses 4 times. Miner for Prek then Maury for K, then back to Miner for 1st and back to Maury for 2nd. No way we are sticking it out for this.  [/quote]

While I feel for you, I've been through a full scale modernization at a DCPS and that's also inconvenient (and also families chose to leave if they got lottery spots during that process because they didn't want to deal with the swing space). While it's a perfectly valid reason to complain generally about the burden on your family, it's not a reason to scrap a plan because it's a temporary inconvenience that will only impact a few grades during the transition. It's just bad luck of timing.[/quote]

It is a reason when the purported goal is to achieve a certain socio-economic ratio. If the better resourced families choose not to stay through a messy transition, that will undercut DME's ability to achieve its stated goal. Also, this will be messier than your typical modernization because it involves two physical campuses and merging two administrations. Maury had a renovation not to long ago, but it was manageable because nothing else was changing and families felt supported through that transition.[/quote]

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