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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. Some kids will get shuffled between three campuses, possibly more if a swing space is needed. [/quote]

What three campuses? Or are you just referring to kids who are in ECE at Maury now and could be shifted to Miner and then back to Maury?

I think they said in one of the meetings that there would be a way to do it without a swingspace because of Miner's new building -- [b]Miner has an excess of ECE classrooms with sinks and toilets.[/b] And at Maury, it's not clear that much retrofit is needed -- converting an ECE classroom to an upper grade classroom mostly just involves changing out furniture and equipment, but doesn't require renovation.[/quote]

Where did you get this info? Miner has 8 ECE classes and as far as I know (as a parent of a child in Miner ECE) the entire ECE wing is at capacity. Maury has 4-5 ECE classes. There is no way Miner has the ECE space for that many additional classes.

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Miner built a whole new ECE building, doubling their ECE capacity over what is in their existing wing. The plan was originally to convert the existing wing to a 0-3 daycare center, and move ECE grades to the new building. But if the cluster plan goes through, it sounds like they would scrap the 0-3 center, use the new building for PK, use existing ECE capacity for K, and then using existing upper grade classrooms for 1st.[/quote]

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