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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MONA and everyone with a BLM or ALM sign ought to be calling it out.

Wishful thinking that anyone in Arlington cares at this point.

There shouldn’t be ANY school in Arlington over 40% poverty and/ or ESL.[/quote]

Isn't concentrating wraparound services best for the students?  Wouldn't the Carlin Springs model be best for Drew?[/quote]

What wraparound services are they offering at Carlin Springs?[/quote]

It is called a "Community School" pretty neat stuff.

https://carlinsprings.apsva.us/about-us/community-school/

Carlin Springs is Arlington’s model “community school.”  Our school facility is used as a base to support students and their families by addressing not only academic needs, but also social, emotional, and health needs through linkages to community partners.  By addressing the needs of the “whole child,” we enhance student success in school and in the larger community. Most of the opportunities associated with the community school model occur before and after school, and in the evenings.   Examples of opportunities include:

[list]Engaging after-school enrichment activities designed to reinforce and enhance what is learned during the school day.[/list]
[list]Parenting workshops, monthly Coffee with the Principal events, weekly parent volunteer activities.[/list]
[list]Academic Parent Teacher Teams, called “Teamwork”[/list]
[list]Family library nights, curriculum nights, and author visits[/list]
[list]Weekly developmental playgroups for toddlers and their parents or caregivers[/list]
[list]Computer and language classes for parents, with enrichment activities for children while parents are in class[/list]
[list]A student-run savings branch of the Arlington VA Federal Credit Union[/list]
[list]Monthly Family Markets (hosted by the Capital Area Food Bank)[/list]
[list]Arlington Department of Human Services (DHS) provides resources for families who need access to mental health, health and dental services.[/list]
[list]Our full time Public Health Nurse manages medical, dental, hearing, vision, and other referrals, assists with health insurance, provides health education and coordinates other health related programs.[/list]

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So why do the teachers at Carlin Springs counsel the gifted kids to transfer to option schools with better resources? Riddle me that. “Neat stuff” my ass. It’s not a recipe for student success alone. If they were provided those resources AND an economically balanced school, it would be better. It shouldn’t be either/or. But it’s not that relevant to the Drew boundary discussion, because it’s just not that feasible to make Drew a balanced school, given the adjacent neighborhoods. It should never have been made a neighborhood school with the expectation that it could be balanced, or even filled without having to pull other neighborhoods in. It’s size and demographics should have been part of the consideration on whether or not to return it to a neighborhood school. [/quote]

Did they ever consider leaving Montessori at Drew, eliminating the neighborhood portion of Drew, but giving all Green Valley kids preference for Montessori or option to attend neighboring school? Essentially every Green Valley kid could attend as their neighborhood school and fill the rest with lottery since so many people want Montessori. [/quote]

I mean that is similar to what was there before. But I honestly don't remember if kids had neighborhood preference to Montessori. But we live in GV, our kind got into Claremont when there was neighborhood preference to there. But it used to be that you could pick Drew, Hoffman Boston or Claremont.[/quote]

Yes, it used to be that GV kids had preference for Montessori at Drew and GV was a preferred neighborhood for Claremont. The neighborhood program portion at Drew amounted to only about 200 or so students. They could also choose the neighborhood program at Drew or transfer to Hoffman Boston.  I'm not sure why they could transfer to Hoffman Boston.

Retaining preferences was not considered because APS - rightfully - dropped the neighborhood preference policy for admission to Claremont. There shouldn't be any geographical preferences for admission to option programs, though I don't think that changed for Campbell until recently.  Also, new boundaries were drawn so Hoffman Boston could relieve crowding at Oakridge; so no neighboring schools would be able to absorb students districted to Drew who want to opt out of Montessori.

Montessori probably would have accepted staying at Drew and having the whole facility for itself; but (1) the building would have been significantly under-utilized at that point because it's a relatively large facility and Montessori program wasn't large enough to fill it; and (2) GV wouldn't hear of not having a neighborhood school in their neighborhood and (3) Montessori really always wanted, and still wants, a brand new building of its own to accommodate a full preK-12 Montessori program. I think the Drew building would still be under utilized even if Montessori merged its middle school program with the ES.  Montessori likes to think it's prime for increasing its program at the higher grade levels.  But it's not.  Maybe they could have centralized all the prek classes from across the county with the K-5 and 6-8 grades.[/quote]

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