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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why mess with something that is working?

-Not a lamb parent / shut out at pk3 and pk4[/quote]

Because it is possible that these barriers to access are a fundamental reason that it is working. And that is pretty important - both for LAMB and for other schools whose metrics are compared to LAMB's (see: charter school tiering process).[/quote]

Put all the other Tier 1 elementary schools don't have the same policies. LAMB is an outlier. And now that other Montessori and immersion schools have come along and proven that you can be successful without these barriers it's harder for LAMB to argue in favor of them.

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Except, as the LAMB admin tried to explain last night - other schools aren't doing both immersion and montessori.  Just because you successfully integrate a 6 year old in an immersion setting or a montessori setting, doesn't necessarily mean you can do both at the same time.  [/quote]

They also swore that not being able to run two lotteries for Spanish and English respectively would ruin their model. It didn't -- although it did result in a wealthier student body.

LAMB will figure it out if they have to -- they would prefer not to -- but if anyone can they will.

For example, they could strongly encourage these new families to enroll their children in their summer program to start the language exposure, and potentially factor in an hour in the classroom to learn the basics of the materials.[/quote]

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