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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will definitely be filing a comment recommending that they not be allowed to expand unless they open their school to grades beyond PK-4.  Even if it's only to those with previous montessori experience.  It's insane that they are the only school that doesn't do this.  Anyone else who feels this way should too.  While there will be retention, there is also attrition and those seats remain open (even though there are families and children interested).  [/quote]

I am a LAMB parent and I would be fine with opening enrollment to K.  Beyond that age presents important challenges, with both Montessori and bilingual education, that would be detrimental to the success of the school, the existing students, and challenging for newly entering kids (unless they had both Spanish and Montessori background and we know charter schools can't choose their students).  It doesn't seem like a winning formula.  I have friends at MV and they lament how hard it is to incorporate even a few non-Spanish speaking kids into elementary age classes.  The impact of this on all students can't be glossed over lightly.

But more importantly, hundreds of families would like their children to attend LAMB, I understand why and look forward to being able to give this opportunity to more families.  You would be willing to deny this opportunity for many more families because they don't allow kids to enter past Pre-K4?  Attrition is decreasing each year now that DCI is the next option and the reason attrition still occurs in any numbers is when families have to send their kids across town to the South Dakota campus from the Missouri campus for 4th grade and they can't make the logistics work.  When the Walter Reed campus opens, that won't be a concern anymore and attrition will be even less likely. This decreasing attrition is exactly why they have to lease more classroom space at the South Dakota campus.  The school will have the majority unfilled slots in primary classes, and this would be where all the new families will enter.  You would deny many families the opportunity to join the school just because LAMB isn't required to fill a few open slots past kindergarten?[/quote]

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