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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]McKinley's size would make it a good choice for a hybrid program.  With both expeditionary learning and neighborhood walkers OP has an interesting idea.[/quote]

McKinley as a location for an expeditionary learning program???  Sorry, just snorted the coffee out of my nose. Clearly you have never been to McKinley's campus. Unless those kids are going to be crawling through the backyards of Madison Manor, where exactly are these kids doing their "outdoor" learning? [/quote]

There is nothing in the expeditionary learning model that is specifically tied to outdoor/natural environment education, that's just the way APS/Campbell have decided to implement it. You can have expeditionary learning in the middle of a dense city, you just implement it differently. Not that I'm signing on the idea of McKinley as an option school, just making the broader point.

That said, developing a whole new curriculum is expensive, so I think the SB will be very reluctant to move Campbell to a location that would make the nature-based curriculum infeasible. Which is why this whole notion the staff came up with of choosing the locations and first and then not deciding which goes where later was always foolish, and I'm glad the SB has finally said so. It would be such a disaster to choose a slate of option schools only to realize after the decision is made that you don't have a suitable site for one of the schools.[/quote]

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