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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t need to eliminate option schools, we need more of them. Look, all of the option schools end up with crazy long wait lists, and[b] it isn’t because of where the school is located.[/b] Sure some parents just want oit if a neighborhood school, but many, many, many are actually there because they think the option school is providing a great curriculum. That is why we chose our option schools even though it had/has a lower ranking than our neighborhood school.  So offer more Ats models, more expeditionary leaning, more Montessori, more Spanish immersion. Clearly people are clamoring for that. [/quote]

Then why was there all that wailing about moving option schools? We don't need more option schools. This is the first year that immersion might not clear their entire waitlists and it's because they cut back the K Classes from 6 to 4. ATS is the only one that consistently has a crazy long wait list and it's expanding significantly with the move. [/quote]

ATS, Campbell, and Immersion have lots of applicants and long waitlists since they started publicly tracking and releasing the info. As does Pre-K Montessori. If they move the satellite Pre-K classes all to a central location, I expect that demand to decrease fairly significantly. Montessori has demonstrated the least demand for the primary years, and yet is being expanded through grade 8. [b]It doesn’t make objective sense.[/b]

Eliminating option schools won’t help the demographics of the highest poverty neighborhood schools. The demographics remain highly segregated (with one exception, but the school couldn’t hold double its current student population anyway, and a boundary change to alleviate crowding would result in a tighter geographical area, and that would result in the same/current imbalance) just given the children in APS living within the geographical boundaries. Our geography is highly segregated, so are the neighborhood schools. [/quote]

But it makes perfect and obvious sense when you remember that the face of  Montessori advocacy spent the last four years on the school board and, more significantly, the last year as Chair.

I don't know if pre-K demand will go down by centralizing the program.  I guess we'll see; but there's such demand for preschool that I doubt moving it to a central location within the County is really going to impact applications.  It's Montessori's hope that centralizing all the preK classes will increase demand for the K-5 years; and then eventually subsequent demand for the 6-8 years.  And you know what's next in about ten years....a 9-12 Montessori program.

What they DO NEED to do and SHOULD do is significantly revamp the fee schedule so non-FRL-eligible families are paying a lot more for it than they have been. Make it comparable or more expensive than private preschools, then we'll see what the real demand is.[/quote]

Why would anyone pay more for public Montessori than private  You're just making it impossible for middle class Arlington families to do Montessori.  The UMC is already in private.[/quote]

Because there is no entitlement to a public private program education.  [/quote]

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