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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I got an email tonight that the new program at Drew will be STEAM. It will be interesting to see how Drew changes when the boundary changes. Living in that neighborhood it has changed a lot even in the past 3 years. But very few UMC parents  sends their kid to the traditional program at Drew. [/quote]

I got the same email, and my first thought was that wow the Drew "visioning" process coincidentally resulted in the outcome the school board wanted, probably just like the new "instructional focus" for the high school will turn out to be....[/quote]

Or, the survey results putting STEM/arts at the top and the Drew visioning discussions were feeding into the strategy, since they both started before the strategy was first communicated.  I did hear not many turned up to the Drew visioning discussions so if the community objects to a STEAM focus they should have voiced a preference for something else.[/quote]

I attended one of the visioning sessions for Drew and I'd be hard pressed to say anything definitive came out of it, STEAM or otherwise, except some random words written down on oversized sheets of paper. There was barely any guidance for what the session was supposed to achieve. I'm not objecting and I don't know whether the broader community will or won't. But the community engagement piece was of questionable utility based on my first-hand experience and, based on that and what I've seen from APS elsewhere, I'm not sure my cynical view is unjustified. [/quote]

Interesting, I just thought STEAM seemed an odd choice since Hoffman-Boston is STEM (or STEAM?) and they are right next to each other. [/quote]

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