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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Longtime Arlington parent here who would love to see  Montessori killed. After pre K it is subsidizing alternative ed for UMC parents. Not remotely addressing achievement gap. They dress themselves in Maria Montessori’s halo but spare us. That said, they are a bunch of tiger moms who have entrenched themselves in the AC/DC hypocrisy. They will niever die. [/quote]

Look, if they would take a larger share of students who actually qualify for fr/l, I am fine with them continuing. I have a real problem with any "option" schoool that is not actually an option for the kids who are most disadvantaged and have the most to gain from a quality pre-K experience and an integrated ES. Don't kill it, fight to make it fair and equitable and accessible. [/quote]

What about HB Woodlawn or ATS? They are hardly more diverse than Yorktown HS. Should they be eliminated as well? Both of those schools are option programs with a lower farms rate than the county average. Let's see how montessori compares as a standalone program next year before we get out the ax.[/quote]

NP.  I see no instructional purpose for ATS.  That said, I would support its continuation if it continued to take-on more FRL students.  And rather than relying on VPI for that, ALL choice programs (Campbell, HB Woodlawn, ATS) should have 30% seat set-asides for FRL students.  Montessori persistently claims its poverty and impoverished students; but they have struggled to even meet the 2/3 "low income" requirement of Montessori - let alone enrolling a lot of students who actually qualify for FRL.

If we're not going to adequately address the disparity problem through boundaries, then yes, keep all the option programs and make sure they all enroll at least 30% FRL students.  That will at least help the schools where the concentrations of affordable housing are.[/quote]

Your claim about montesorri being largely wealthy doesn't seem to hold o in light of the calculations posted on the previous page in this thread, which indicate it's probably close to 30% farms. Do you have better figures? As teacher says, show your work :)[/quote]

You're talking to two different posters at least. How many students will be enrolled as Montessori at Henry? Because the building capacity is over 600. I assumed the program would be filling the school, no? Were there not enough applicants? There are 706 current Drew students. If only 251 are actual Drew residents, wouldn't the other 455 move to Henry? There would be space for 100 or more additional kids. Are there no new kids joining the program? I had assumed the program would grow, and that new families joining would be coming from private Montessori and not be low income, resulting in a very low fr/l rate. What's going on?[/quote]

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