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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't DCPS refuse to backfill? I'm genuinely curious, and if it's simply DCPS policy that they must backfill all spots as best as possible, so be it.

But it's an odd policy, if so. There are other public school systems in the US that have similar lottery-only Montessori schools and choose not to backfill after first grade, or will only do so when a child is moving from another Montessori school.

Along those lines, does DCPS backfill dual language spots as well, regardless of language exposure or competency?[/quote]

DCPS is a high-mobility school system generally. Other places may have less students switching their school every year, so not backfilling doesn't create as many empty seats. In DCPS context, not backfilling means spending almost the same amount of money in terms of staff and physical space but serving fewer and fewer kids each year, and that isn't very appealing from a financial perspective.

Now, if it were set up that kids from DCPS' Langdon and Nalle Montessori programs had feeder rights at CHML that might be nice. But it's not very convenient from Nalle. And in the Escape data it doesn't seem like a lot of people are doing that. Part of the problem is CHML's poor performance, but it's also just an age of kid thing. There are plenty of families who want, or are okay with, Montessori for ECE but really aren't bought into it for elementary and middle school grades.[/quote]

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