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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PG County has intentionally created a model built on scarcity so they honestly can (and will) do whatever when it comes to speciality programs. It’s become normalized in such a bizarre way. High performing districts and most private schools allow tours. Just want to affirm (as someone also in education) not allowing tours is in fact crazy. [/quote]

A lot of specialty programs do offer tours, especially the high schools.  ERHS, Northwestern, Flowers, and Academy of the Heath Sciences offer tours.  College Park Academy has an open house and I was able to get a tour of Parkdale by contacting the IB coordinator.
I know that Kenmoor Middle and Capitol Heights Elementary (TAG schools) offer tours too.  I have seen other open houses/tours at several of the immersion schools.

But the Montessori schools often have waitlists in the hundreds, especially for Pre-K, so they have no reason to do it.

And for the OP, it is not a true Montessori according to several parents I know.  There is a lot more structure.

PGCPS has expanded the specialty programs so much that the only one that is really hard to get into is and CPA at elementary and Montessori.  A lot of people get slots at more than one school and need to make a choice.

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For a largely failing school district, they do not have “a lot” of slots proportionally. Many speciality programs are also not high performing in terms of academic performance. There are more open slots because people are becoming hip to the fact that in many cases they are relatively “better” but still not good.

Paying 10k+ in property taxes to put your child’s future in a slot machine and hope for the best is ridiculous and I hate that we’ve normalized this as good enough. [/quote]

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