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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah - but why not just open it up after you fill VPI and siblings. How about people who moved here and didn’t have access to Montessori. Or people who couldn’t swing Montessori (APS or private) because they needed full day care.[/quote]

I'm sympathetic to that argument. The counter argument was that kids learn a lot in preschool montessori that prepares them for the elementary experience, and so if it's all or half children without prior montessori experience, that's kinda good for nobody. Of course it's true of all preschoolers: they start out way ahead of kids who were babysat instead of educated for the first 5 years of life.

Anyway, opening montessori to everyone regardless of prior experience is moot now, since Henry barely has enough seats for aps preschool montessori, and those kids are guaranteed admission. No one who wasn't poor enough, lucky enough, or crafty enough with their claimed income to get into aps preschool montesorri is getting into Henry from her on out. There's been a waitlist for preschool montessori for a long time and it'll get longer and worse now that it's the only way into Henry.

My family weren't any of those 3 things, and so we dug deep to pay for full day "private" montesorri so the kid got an education while both parents worked all day. I guess that makes us some kind of terrible "private" school people. We were looking forward to continuing that montessori education at Drew but thems the breaks. No one owes us anything. Can't afford to pay what we were paying for years to come at some private elementary and wouldn't want to. I wish they'd expand the program instead of capping it. It's clearly in demand.
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