What do you expect from APS staff (option/neighborhood) on 4/30?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?! Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks. Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program.

I don't what you source is but there's a waitlist for kindergarten montessori. There just aren't many slots period so 76 apps could easily exceed those available. Plus aps preschool montesorri is 2/3rds+ reserved for families making less than about 80k a year. Aps preschool montessori gets preferential admission to k-5 aged montessori and they basically take all the elementary slots. Only a handful of "private" montessori preschool kids, if any, gets in anymore, and they don't get any more consideration once waitlisted than a kid with no montesorri schooling at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?! Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks. Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program.

Was 76 the final total? I remember them announcing numbers 3 days before the deadline, but not after that.

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Anonymous wrote:Key was like, no move to ASFS. APS said, ok, try Barcroft. Key is like, wait, what??

Well, can you imagine being forced to go to school in South Arlington when you specifically paid to go to a school in North Arlington?

Umm nobody is forcing them. Just stay at key the neighborhood school.

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Anonymous wrote:Key was like, no move to ASFS. APS said, ok, try Barcroft. Key is like, wait, what??

Well, can you imagine being forced to go to school in South Arlington when you specifically paid to go to a school in North Arlington?

Umm nobody is forcing them. Just stay at key the neighborhood school.

Only 40% actually live in Key zone as drawn, but yeah, I think a significant portion of them will stay at the neighborhood school if it switches.

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Anonymous wrote:While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?! Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks. Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program.

Was 76 the final total? I remember them announcing numbers 3 days before the deadline, but not after that.

What is the 1st grade application number? I think that's when most who've been in a Montessori program would apply, right?

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Anonymous wrote:While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?! Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks. Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program.

Was 76 the final total? I remember them announcing numbers 3 days before the deadline, but not after that.

What is the 1st grade application number? I think that's when most who've been in a Montessori program would apply, right?

Montessori had 50. For comparison purposes, ATS had 59, Campbell had 32, Key had 35 and Claremont had 25.

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Anonymous wrote:While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?! Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks. Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program.

Was 76 the final total? I remember them announcing numbers 3 days before the deadline, but not after that.

What is the 1st grade application number? I think that's when most who've been in a Montessori program would apply, right?

Montessori had 50. For comparison purposes, ATS had 59, Campbell had 32, Key had 35 and Claremont had 25.

That 50 doesn't count the 45 or so kids who continue from Drew Montessori preschool into the elementary program at 1st grade. And anyway, Tara Nattrass didn't admit any of the 1st grade applicants. Not even the younger siblings of current elementary students. So even though next year will be the most overcrowded year for elementary schools (1000 seat deficit), Drew will have no trailers and a choice program will be artificially capped by APS.

To the person complaining about Montessori application numbers above, there were something like 500 preschool applicants. That's when Montessori begins and the children who get in stay for elementary. So there's your demand.

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Anonymous wrote:While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?! Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks. Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program.

Was 76 the final total? I remember them announcing numbers 3 days before the deadline, but not after that.

What is the 1st grade application number? I think that's when most who've been in a Montessori program would apply, right?

Montessori had 50. For comparison purposes, ATS had 59, Campbell had 32, Key had 35 and Claremont had 25.

That 50 doesn't count the 45 or so kids who continue from Drew Montessori preschool into the elementary program at 1st grade. And anyway, Tara Nattrass didn't admit any of the 1st grade applicants. Not even the younger siblings of current elementary students. So even though next year will be the most overcrowded year for elementary schools (1000 seat deficit), Drew will have no trailers and a choice program will be artificially capped by APS.

To the person complaining about Montessori application numbers above, there were something like 500 preschool applicants. That's when Montessori begins and the children who get in stay for elementary. So there's your demand.

Yes, I had heard she eliminated sibling preference without notice days before the lottery began. I assume she will do the same for the other option programs sooner or later.

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Anonymous wrote:While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?! Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks. Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program.

Was 76 the final total? I remember them announcing numbers 3 days before the deadline, but not after that.

What is the 1st grade application number? I think that's when most who've been in a Montessori program would apply, right?

Montessori had 50. For comparison purposes, ATS had 59, Campbell had 32, Key had 35 and Claremont had 25.

That 50 doesn't count the 45 or so kids who continue from Drew Montessori preschool into the elementary program at 1st grade. And anyway, Tara Nattrass didn't admit any of the 1st grade applicants. Not even the younger siblings of current elementary students. So even though next year will be the most overcrowded year for elementary schools (1000 seat deficit), Drew will have no trailers and a choice program will be artificially capped by APS.

To the person complaining about Montessori application numbers above, there were something like 500 preschool applicants. That's when Montessori begins and the children who get in stay for elementary. So there's your demand.

How many kids drop out of the preschool program to go to traditional Kindergarten? (It was almost all when my son went to APS Montessori.) So no. That is not the demand. Many people like Montessori for preschool and like the five-day-a-week format, but are not committed to Montessori for Kindergarten and beyond.

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Anonymous wrote:While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?! Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks. Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program.

Was 76 the final total? I remember them announcing numbers 3 days before the deadline, but not after that.

What is the 1st grade application number? I think that's when most who've been in a Montessori program would apply, right?

Montessori had 50. For comparison purposes, ATS had 59, Campbell had 32, Key had 35 and Claremont had 25.

That 50 doesn't count the 45 or so kids who continue from Drew Montessori preschool into the elementary program at 1st grade. And anyway, Tara Nattrass didn't admit any of the 1st grade applicants. Not even the younger siblings of current elementary students. So even though next year will be the most overcrowded year for elementary schools (1000 seat deficit), Drew will have no trailers and a choice program will be artificially capped by APS.

To the person complaining about Montessori application numbers above, there were something like 500 preschool applicants. That's when Montessori begins and the children who get in stay for elementary. So there's your demand.

How many kids drop out of the preschool program to go to traditional Kindergarten? (It was almost all when my son went to APS Montessori.) So no. That is not the demand. Many people like Montessori for preschool and like the five-day-a-week format, but are not committed to Montessori for Kindergarten and beyond.

Well, it can't be that way anymore. There is a waitlist to get in right now, for kids who want to go to Henry/Drew but didn't get into aps preschool montesorri. A neighbors kid was in the low double digits on the waitlist so its pretty clear to me that there is demand in excess of supply, and clearly aps preschool kids are stocking with the program.

[Anonymous]

The largest numbers at Drew are from perceived under-performing schools. I would love to know how many of these people applied to more than one lottery just to get away from their home school, regardless of the program.

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Anonymous wrote:While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?! Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks. Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program.

Was 76 the final total? I remember them announcing numbers 3 days before the deadline, but not after that.

What is the 1st grade application number? I think that's when most who've been in a Montessori program would apply, right?

Montessori had 50. For comparison purposes, ATS had 59, Campbell had 32, Key had 35 and Claremont had 25.

That 50 doesn't count the 45 or so kids who continue from Drew Montessori preschool into the elementary program at 1st grade. And anyway, Tara Nattrass didn't admit any of the 1st grade applicants. Not even the younger siblings of current elementary students. So even though next year will be the most overcrowded year for elementary schools (1000 seat deficit), Drew will have no trailers and a choice program will be artificially capped by APS.

To the person complaining about Montessori application numbers above, there were something like 500 preschool applicants. That's when Montessori begins and the children who get in stay for elementary. So there's your demand.

Yes, I had heard she eliminated sibling preference without notice days before the lottery began. I assume she will do the same for the other option programs sooner or later.

no she didn't. She clarified that kids in APS montessori got preference for 1st grade slots at Drew before kids coming from private preschools- whether or not they were siblings. The Montessori community is loudly calling this eliminating sibling preference, but its just not.

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Anonymous wrote:While we’re on the topic of Montessori, did anyone notice how low the K applications are? 76?! Why are we keeping that program? No one wants it for K-5 except rich white folks. Let them pay for private Montessori. Offer to ages 3-5 based on income. Can it after that. I’m tired of subsidizing their program.

Was 76 the final total? I remember them announcing numbers 3 days before the deadline, but not after that.

What is the 1st grade application number? I think that's when most who've been in a Montessori program would apply, right?

Montessori had 50. For comparison purposes, ATS had 59, Campbell had 32, Key had 35 and Claremont had 25.

That 50 doesn't count the 45 or so kids who continue from Drew Montessori preschool into the elementary program at 1st grade. And anyway, Tara Nattrass didn't admit any of the 1st grade applicants. Not even the younger siblings of current elementary students. So even though next year will be the most overcrowded year for elementary schools (1000 seat deficit), Drew will have no trailers and a choice program will be artificially capped by APS.

To the person complaining about Montessori application numbers above, there were something like 500 preschool applicants. That's when Montessori begins and the children who get in stay for elementary. So there's your demand.

Yes, I had heard she eliminated sibling preference without notice days before the lottery began. I assume she will do the same for the other option programs sooner or later.

no she didn't. She clarified that kids in APS montessori got preference for 1st grade slots at Drew before kids coming from private preschools- whether or not they were siblings. The Montessori community is loudly calling this eliminating sibling preference, but its just not.

So basically, they're capping the program size much lower than the other option schools? Is this because they know they're going to move again in a few years and want to keep the program small while doing so?

[Anonymous]

I think what Dr. Nattrass did was great. The wealthy Montessori lobby is just mad that puts actual kids in need ahead of the privileged siblings.
Someone needs to FOIA the stats on Montessori. What percentage of the grade 1-8 kids in Montessori (not all of Drew) are FARMS. I doubt it’s very high. How many applicants are there truly beyond the ptreschool/K program. I can’t believe we gave this low demand elementary program prime real estate. APS needs to take a hard look at them.

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Anonymous wrote:The largest numbers at Drew are from perceived under-performing schools. I would love to know how many of these people applied to more than one lottery just to get away from their home school, regardless of the program.

Why does it matter?