Montessori Middle School options

[Anonymous]

Has Shining Stars 'refused' to work with Lee and Breakthrough? Who at Lee and/or Breakthrough can we talk to for this information? Has to be someone from one of those schools on this thread making that charge. The plot thickens.

[Anonymous]

That doesn't answer the question of accepting children without any Montessori background.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has Shining Stars 'refused' to work with Lee and Breakthrough? Who at Lee and/or Breakthrough can we talk to for this information? Has to be someone from one of those schools on this thread making that charge. The plot thickens.

the poster said IF and was clearly speculating. No one here has inside info. This super defensive ssma poster is getting old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That doesn't answer the question of accepting children without any Montessori background.

. Dci has to accept if there is room, but the plan is to not gave much space after feeders. I'm no expert, by my Montessori school has don a great job if taking on new students at the elementary level so that should be true of middle as long as we plan well to have a critical mass of Montessori kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has Shining Stars 'refused' to work with Lee and Breakthrough? Who at Lee and/or Breakthrough can we talk to for this information? Has to be someone from one of those schools on this thread making that charge. The plot thickens.

the poster said IF and was clearly speculating. No one here has inside info. This super defensive ssma poster is getting old.

I was the poster who said if based on the SSMA parent who posted earlier who claimed they were unilaterally going ahead with a middle school. I have no idea if that was true. Lee and Breakthrough already work together.

[Anonymous]

It seems like any of these schools could probably create and fill a single 6/7/8th grade classroom if they chose to. It's not like you need THAT much special infrastructure for 30 kids. You'd lose the benefits of having larger/multiple classes, but you could still do it.

I don't know if this is what the original poster was referring to when discussing SSMA's "plans," but if you look at the floor plans attached to their charter amendment application, the top floor of their new buildings had classrooms that appeared to be tentatively slated for the middle school age group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like any of these schools could probably create and fill a single 6/7/8th grade classroom if they chose to. It's not like you need THAT much special infrastructure for 30 kids. You'd lose the benefits of having larger/multiple classes, but you could still do it.

I don't know if this is what the original poster was referring to when discussing SSMA's "plans," but if you look at the floor plans attached to their charter amendment application, the top floor of their new buildings had classrooms that appeared to be tentatively slated for the middle school age group.

There can't be all that many of us ssma parents with upper elementary children , but let me say that I assume ssma is working hard on a middle school (and I hope that's true, because all I've heard are rumors to that effect--fairly solid ones, but rumors all the same) because we will have kids who will need a middle school. Soon! Sooner than Lee, and much, much sooner than breakthrough .

Again, although I still am amused by my own thunderdome idea, this is not a competition. This is not a race. This is just an effort for some of us to stay at a school we love where our kids are thriving. Should ssma combine it's middle school with Lee and breakthrough later? Sure. If it makes sense. But it's a little early to making all of these hypothetical assumptions about anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like any of these schools could probably create and fill a single 6/7/8th grade classroom if they chose to. It's not like you need THAT much special infrastructure for 30 kids. You'd lose the benefits of having larger/multiple classes, but you could still do it.

I don't know if this is what the original poster was referring to when discussing SSMA's "plans," but if you look at the floor plans attached to their charter amendment application, the top floor of their new buildings had classrooms that appeared to be tentatively slated for the middle school age group.

There can't be all that many of us ssma parents with upper elementary children , but let me say that I assume ssma is working hard on a middle school (and I hope that's true, because all I've heard are rumors to that effect--fairly solid ones, but rumors all the same) because we will have kids who will need a middle school. Soon! Sooner than Lee, and much, much sooner than breakthrough .

Again, although I still am amused by my own thunderdome idea, this is not a competition. This is not a race. This is just an effort for some of us to stay at a school we love where our kids are thriving. Should ssma combine it's middle school with Lee and breakthrough later? Sure. If it makes sense. But it's a little early to making all of these hypothetical assumptions about anything.

what is SSMA's highest grade this year?

[Anonymous]

It will be fifth next year. Lee I think will have third grade next year? Or fourth? Breakthrough will not be facing this issue for a while.