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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, you CMI parents are a mess.  I don't see anywhere (except in one poster's imagination) that  it is a special needs school. It is brand new.  Give it a couple years. It could be a fantastic thing for your school.  If you want a deal-like middle school, this isn't for you, but it certainly [i]could[/i] become a small, academically rigorous middle school. It certainly sounds like that is the admin's intention.

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The CMI proposal to amend its charter to include grades 6-8 (which is linked above) explicitly said that [b]part[/b] of the rationale to expand to middle school was to continue to support children with sensory integration disorders and down syndrome, and that they have a higher than typical number of those students than other charter schools due to their expertise with these populations. It also said that, in addition to serving typical kids, they had interest in potentially creating a self-contained MS classroom for those kids.

This isn't really news to anyone who has been at the school or listened to its leaders.

What CMI is, and has always been, is a school committed to a high level of inclusion possible and support for children with special needs. That is NOT in conflict with wanting to be a school that is small and academically rigorous.

All charters have to include different learners and special needs kids - it comes with being a public school. But CMI has designed for their needs from the ground up, not tacked it on later when they had to because of who enrolled. They shoudl be commended for this, IMO.

-Parent of a kid with SN who doesn't attend CMI

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