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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MPSA should close. No neighborhood school should be asked to close for an option school that serves the whitest and wealthiest students fleeing their south Arlington schools.

Close MPSA and  give neighborhood schools what they need to succeed. [/quote]

YES!
I've tried to be tolerant and accepting of MPSA over the years. But I'm done. Guess it doesn't matter, though, since they're getting what they want. The only thing left is expanding to the high school years. But after they get everything at the CC site, does anyone believe there's any chance they won't ultimately get that, too?[/quote]

Not a MPSA parent. I actually don't think they should close. I'm fine with them existing as an option. I just don't think APS should keep catering to them. First they insisted they had to get out of Drew, now their alternate location isn't good enough and we must spend $$$$  to refurbish yet another building. Where does it stop? Stick them back in a neighborhood school colocated with a neighborhood program (ahem Drew), or make the whole building MPSA but give the neighborhood preference. And be done with it. [/quote]

Absolutely not. We finally moved away from neighborhood preferences to option schools (ie, Claremont) and should never go back.
And an option program within a neighborhood school is also just bad. It didn't work. MPSA dominated to the neighborhood program students detriment. Why people keep suggesting returning to that is beyond my comprehension. MPSA is theoretically too differently organized to be in a school with a traditional bell schedule.

MPSA parents know their program isn't as revered and coveted as they proclaim; that it does not serve as many underprivileged students as it should or as other option programs do even though it sets aside seats for them. But they cling to these arguments to justify not just their continued existence, but their expansion. Give neighborhood kids a new school, option programs can have the old buildings. They are optional. If people believe in the program enough, they will go.[/quote]

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