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Anonymous wrote:Please don't tell us what we should do, or how best to be productive. We live on the Hill, too, where we like to defend our contrarian bona fides. We can base our logic on our ideological views or any other dogma we follow. We fill out what we like, as we choose, thanks.

+100.

What if we fill it out not because of "idealogical" choices but because different options have different costs? Folks in the Miner/Maury/Brent/LT, etc. catchments don't seem reluctant to weigh in on the Cluster's advocacy for renovations/moving grades, etc. that have taken place over the last several years, also without knowing the exact information being conveyed by DCPS to our community about critical issues. How is this different?

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Anonymous wrote:Please don't tell us what we should do, or how best to be productive. We live on the Hill, too, where we like to defend our contrarian bona fides. We can base our logic on our ideological views or any other dogma we follow. We fill out what we like, as we choose, thanks.

+100.

What if we fill it out not because of "idealogical" choices but because different options have different costs? Folks in the Miner/Maury/Brent/LT, etc. catchments don't seem reluctant to weigh in on the Cluster's advocacy for renovations/moving grades, etc. that have taken place over the last several years, also without knowing the exact information being conveyed by DCPS to our community about critical issues. How is this different?

Anonymous wrote:Maury parent here. Please do not fill out this survey if you are not currently zoned for Miner or Maury. DCPS discussed the cluster model with us at a community meeting a couple of weeks ago attended by hundreds of people. If you get your news from this forum and PoPVille then you don't have enough information to weigh in on our families' immediate future. DCPS put itself in a bind at Maury by expanding the boundaries of an already crowded school, and things were made worse by the Mayor's haphazard method of awarding capital improvement funds. The options realistically on the table all involve construction, and parents are currently faced with a series of imperfect choices. Filling the survey with noise based on your ideological views about student demographics and citing population statistics from 2013 would be extremely counterproductive.

Anonymous wrote:Please don't tell us what we should do, or how best to be productive. We live on the Hill, too, where we like to defend our contrarian bona fides. We can base our logic on our ideological views or any other dogma we follow. We fill out what we like, as we choose, thanks.

Anonymous wrote:Please don't tell us what we should do, or how best to be productive. We live on the Hill, too, where we like to defend our contrarian bona fides. We can base our logic on our ideological views or any other dogma we follow. We fill out what we like, as we choose, thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. But 20% was the figure in 2013, the last year that it's publicly available.

http://www.dc-aya.org/sites/default/files/content/Homeless%20Student%20Enrollment%20in%20DCPS.pdf

Nothing wrong with being homeless. We need to build communities of inclusion, not walls of division

This thread has really turned into some SJW silliness

You're not from the Maury community. Probably you should not comment here. Plenty of parents in the Maury community share the values of inclusiveness. I imagine that many of us would indeed be upset and worried about a cluster, but please leave the alt-right lingo out of this conversation.

OP I wish you hadn't posted this on DCUM. Ugliness all around. This survey has already been pushed out to Maury parents on other channels.

Telling people they shouldn't comment or post things doesn't seem very inclusive to me

Oh hi, false equivalency troll, you're here too?

False equivalency?

Of course it's false equivalency. There is no equivalency between saying that the Maury community values inclusion (ie, children of all colors and economic status and background and ability in our neighborhood); and saying that this very sensitive, hyper-local discussion needs to be had on an anonymous message board populated by conservative trolls from all over in the name of "inclusion."

I think inclusion would mean respecting that there are different political and social ideologies than your own. Although I agree this thread has lost its constructive value

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Anonymous wrote:Don't panic, folks. The idea is obviously a non-starter, because almost the entire Maury community is going to fight it tooth and nail. It's a no brainer that droves of well-educated, connected and determined parents, including dozens of lawyers, are going to zealously sink it deeply logical reasons. DCPS and Allen were seriously bone-headed to float such a dead-ended concept. It will gain no more traction than the the lottery clusters concept Jennifer Niles floated in 2012. A year hence, nobody will be talking about the merger that wasn't.

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Well, clearly this is being floated as a way to bludgeon the Maury community into acccepting a crappy reno that takes away 1/2 of the open space as the alternative. So actually not that boneheaded.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. But 20% was the figure in 2013, the last year that it's publicly available.

http://www.dc-aya.org/sites/default/files/content/Homeless%20Student%20Enrollment%20in%20DCPS.pdf

Nothing wrong with being homeless. We need to build communities of inclusion, not walls of division

This thread has really turned into some SJW silliness

You're not from the Maury community. Probably you should not comment here. Plenty of parents in the Maury community share the values of inclusiveness. I imagine that many of us would indeed be upset and worried about a cluster, but please leave the alt-right lingo out of this conversation.

OP I wish you hadn't posted this on DCUM. Ugliness all around. This survey has already been pushed out to Maury parents on other channels.

Telling people they shouldn't comment or post things doesn't seem very inclusive to me

Oh hi, false equivalency troll, you're here too?

False equivalency?

Of course it's false equivalency. There is no equivalency between saying that the Maury community values inclusion (ie, children of all colors and economic status and background and ability in our neighborhood); and saying that this very sensitive, hyper-local discussion needs to be had on an anonymous message board populated by conservative trolls from all over in the name of "inclusion."

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Anonymous wrote:NP. But 20% was the figure in 2013, the last year that it's publicly available.

http://www.dc-aya.org/sites/default/files/content/Homeless%20Student%20Enrollment%20in%20DCPS.pdf

Nothing wrong with being homeless. We need to build communities of inclusion, not walls of division

This thread has really turned into some SJW silliness

You're not from the Maury community. Probably you should not comment here. Plenty of parents in the Maury community share the values of inclusiveness. I imagine that many of us would indeed be upset and worried about a cluster, but please leave the alt-right lingo out of this conversation.

OP I wish you hadn't posted this on DCUM. Ugliness all around. This survey has already been pushed out to Maury parents on other channels.

Telling people they shouldn't comment or post things doesn't seem very inclusive to me

Oh hi, false equivalency troll, you're here too?

False equivalency?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. But 20% was the figure in 2013, the last year that it's publicly available.

http://www.dc-aya.org/sites/default/files/content/Homeless%20Student%20Enrollment%20in%20DCPS.pdf

Nothing wrong with being homeless. We need to build communities of inclusion, not walls of division

This thread has really turned into some SJW silliness

You're not from the Maury community. Probably you should not comment here. Plenty of parents in the Maury community share the values of inclusiveness. I imagine that many of us would indeed be upset and worried about a cluster, but please leave the alt-right lingo out of this conversation.

OP I wish you hadn't posted this on DCUM. Ugliness all around. This survey has already been pushed out to Maury parents on other channels.

Telling people they shouldn't comment or post things doesn't seem very inclusive to me

Oh hi, false equivalency troll, you're here too?

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Anonymous wrote:NP. But 20% was the figure in 2013, the last year that it's publicly available.

http://www.dc-aya.org/sites/default/files/content/Homeless%20Student%20Enrollment%20in%20DCPS.pdf

Nothing wrong with being homeless. We need to build communities of inclusion, not walls of division

This thread has really turned into some SJW silliness

You're not from the Maury community. Probably you should not comment here. Plenty of parents in the Maury community share the values of inclusiveness. I imagine that many of us would indeed be upset and worried about a cluster, but please leave the alt-right lingo out of this conversation.

OP I wish you hadn't posted this on DCUM. Ugliness all around. This survey has already been pushed out to Maury parents on other channels.

Telling people they shouldn't comment or post things doesn't seem very inclusive to me