What did you think of the APS email sent out today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montessori needs to be central and on easy transportation routes to support ED families. 2/3 of the Montessori preschool is ED. Also must have easy public transportation.

But they are already happily going to Jamestown now, including the 2/3rds ED.
Jamestown has 3 Montessori classrooms now, it’s a popular and familiar location for the program. Discovery has one classroom also.
And the classrooms are not 2/3rds disadvantaged after K, this is only an APS requirement for age 3-K.

Correct, at least in theory. But in practice, since the APS preschoolers in montessori fill the elementary slots, the income proportion roughly does carry over. Hard to imagine it's not at least 40-50% if not 2/3rds. For the last year and certainly going forward, unless a child attended aps montesorri preschool, its a slim to none chance of attending Henry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montessori needs to be central and on easy transportation routes to support ED families. 2/3 of the Montessori preschool is ED. Also must have easy public transportation.

But they are already happily going to Jamestown now, including the 2/3rds ED.
Jamestown has 3 Montessori classrooms now, it’s a popular and familiar location for the program. Discovery has one classroom also.
And the classrooms are not 2/3rds disadvantaged after K, this is only an APS requirement for age 3-K.

Correct, at least in theory. But in practice, since the APS preschoolers in montessori fill the elementary slots, the income proportion roughly does carry over. Hard to imagine it's not at least 40-50% if not 2/3rds. For the last year and certainly going forward, unless a child attended aps montesorri preschool, its a slim to none chance of attending Henry.

This is incorrect. Title I requires a school to be at least 40% FARMS. The school staff said in the budget discussion that the Montessori program would no longer be Title I when it moved to its own building.

[Anonymous]

People—the 2/3 majority for primary Montessori is families making 88k or less agi. The cutoff free or reduced lunch is much lower than that. The income ratio that carries over is not equivalent to 2/3 FARMS.


-parent at a majority FARMS school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montessori needs to be central and on easy transportation routes to support ED families. 2/3 of the Montessori preschool is ED. Also must have easy public transportation.

But they are already happily going to Jamestown now, including the 2/3rds ED.
Jamestown has 3 Montessori classrooms now, it’s a popular and familiar location for the program. Discovery has one classroom also.
And the classrooms are not 2/3rds disadvantaged after K, this is only an APS requirement for age 3-K.

Correct, at least in theory. But in practice, since the APS preschoolers in montessori fill the elementary slots, the income proportion roughly does carry over. Hard to imagine it's not at least 40-50% if not 2/3rds. For the last year and certainly going forward, unless a child attended aps montesorri preschool, its a slim to none chance of attending Henry.

This is incorrect. Title I requires a school to be at least 40% FARMS. The school staff said in the budget discussion that the Montessori program would no longer be Title I when it moved to its own building.

I think you are correct. While 2/3 of the slots are reserved for people making under 80% AMI, that is not poverty. Kids who are eligible to receive fr/l are not in Montessori in large numbers. Surprising. There is a fee at the 3-year-old year that I think is a barrier for many families whose kids qualify for fr/l.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montessori needs to be central and on easy transportation routes to support ED families. 2/3 of the Montessori preschool is ED. Also must have easy public transportation.

But they are already happily going to Jamestown now, including the 2/3rds ED.
Jamestown has 3 Montessori classrooms now, it’s a popular and familiar location for the program. Discovery has one classroom also.
And the classrooms are not 2/3rds disadvantaged after K, this is only an APS requirement for age 3-K.

Correct, at least in theory. But in practice, since the APS preschoolers in montessori fill the elementary slots, the income proportion roughly does carry over. Hard to imagine it's not at least 40-50% if not 2/3rds. For the last year and certainly going forward, unless a child attended aps montesorri preschool, its a slim to none chance of attending Henry.

This is incorrect. Title I requires a school to be at least 40% FARMS. The school staff said in the budget discussion that the Montessori program would no longer be Title I when it moved to its own building.

Keep in mind that until the last year or so, there were open slots in elementary montesorri; aps preschool didn't always fill the program. Also remember Thant the 2/3rds number is not "farms". Farms is basically being on food stamps. The 2/3rds for preschool is something like a household income under 80k for a family. That's not enough to buy a SFH or even a duplex anywhere in Arlington but it's not good stanp territory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montessori needs to be central and on easy transportation routes to support ED families. 2/3 of the Montessori preschool is ED. Also must have easy public transportation.

But they are already happily going to Jamestown now, including the 2/3rds ED.
Jamestown has 3 Montessori classrooms now, it’s a popular and familiar location for the program. Discovery has one classroom also.
And the classrooms are not 2/3rds disadvantaged after K, this is only an APS requirement for age 3-K.

Correct, at least in theory. But in practice, since the APS preschoolers in montessori fill the elementary slots, the income proportion roughly does carry over. Hard to imagine it's not at least 40-50% if not 2/3rds. For the last year and certainly going forward, unless a child attended aps montesorri preschool, its a slim to none chance of attending Henry.

This is incorrect. Title I requires a school to be at least 40% FARMS. The school staff said in the budget discussion that the Montessori program would no longer be Title I when it moved to its own building.

I think you are correct. While 2/3 of the slots are reserved for people making under 80% AMI, that is not poverty. Kids who are eligible to receive fr/l are not in Montessori in large numbers. Surprising. There is a fee at the 3-year-old year that I think is a barrier for many families whose kids qualify for fr/l.

The fee is on a sliding scale based on income. Above 80k you pay full freight which is comparable to "private" preschool. I don't recall the breakpoints but I wouldn't be surprised if it was close to zero for families at the farms level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montessori needs to be central and on easy transportation routes to support ED families. 2/3 of the Montessori preschool is ED. Also must have easy public transportation.

But they are already happily going to Jamestown now, including the 2/3rds ED.
Jamestown has 3 Montessori classrooms now, it’s a popular and familiar location for the program. Discovery has one classroom also.
And the classrooms are not 2/3rds disadvantaged after K, this is only an APS requirement for age 3-K.

Correct, at least in theory. But in practice, since the APS preschoolers in montessori fill the elementary slots, the income proportion roughly does carry over. Hard to imagine it's not at least 40-50% if not 2/3rds. For the last year and certainly going forward, unless a child attended aps montesorri preschool, its a slim to none chance of attending Henry.

This is incorrect. Title I requires a school to be at least 40% FARMS. The school staff said in the budget discussion that the Montessori program would no longer be Title I when it moved to its own building.

I think you are correct. While 2/3 of the slots are reserved for people making under 80% AMI, that is not poverty. Kids who are eligible to receive fr/l are not in Montessori in large numbers. Surprising. There is a fee at the 3-year-old year that I think is a barrier for many families whose kids qualify for fr/l.

Dude, poor kids in general aren't in preschool. It's not unique to montessori. They're at home with grandma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montessori needs to be central and on easy transportation routes to support ED families. 2/3 of the Montessori preschool is ED. Also must have easy public transportation.

But they are already happily going to Jamestown now, including the 2/3rds ED.
Jamestown has 3 Montessori classrooms now, it’s a popular and familiar location for the program. Discovery has one classroom also.
And the classrooms are not 2/3rds disadvantaged after K, this is only an APS requirement for age 3-K.

Correct, at least in theory. But in practice, since the APS preschoolers in montessori fill the elementary slots, the income proportion roughly does carry over. Hard to imagine it's not at least 40-50% if not 2/3rds. For the last year and certainly going forward, unless a child attended aps montesorri preschool, its a slim to none chance of attending Henry.

This is incorrect. Title I requires a school to be at least 40% FARMS. The school staff said in the budget discussion that the Montessori program would no longer be Title I when it moved to its own building.

I think you are correct. While 2/3 of the slots are reserved for people making under 80% AMI, that is not poverty. Kids who are eligible to receive fr/l are not in Montessori in large numbers. Surprising. There is a fee at the 3-year-old year that I think is a barrier for many families whose kids qualify for fr/l.

Dude, poor kids in general aren't in preschool. It's not unique to montessori. They're at home with grandma.

Dude, we have VPI that is expressly for getting poor kids into preschool. I think a lot of people were thinking that the public Montessori preschool option looks a lot more like VPI than it actually does, and are finding the argument that Montessori is providing seats to ED children and therefore should be a top priority to be bunk. If they actually did provide more opportunity for ED students, they'd be in a better position to tout their model.