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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Campbell would lose 60 percent of its student or more if moved that far north. No longer title I. No nature center curriculum. It would be a total waste of a school. I have a kid there and without the wetland and nature center the curriculum would be trashed. Aps might as well eliminate the program if they move it. I would pull my kid because it would have no value as an option school. I know others would too, and not just the majority of low income families. The wealthier families chose the school for a reason.[/quote]

Isn’t Campbell Title I because of the large number of VPI students that are guaranteed to continue?[/quote]

So here's part of the issue with moving any option school that far north: what VPI-eligible families live anywhere near there? Option schools are all supposed to have VPI classrooms, so where are they going to find VPI kids near Nottingham? [/quote]

They will draw down the numbers and attendance zone for Nottingham, making it smaller, then they will move Montessori there in 5 years. 
I just read all of their documents, and they want to keep the “option School within a neighborhood school model” as a possibility.
This way Nottingham retains a neighborhood school of walkers, and Montessori can expand there (because the site has that potential).
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They’re not going to move the Montessori program twice in five years.[/quote]

Not to mention that the option school within a neighborhood school model would,completely undermine the stated goal of giving option programs he flexibilit to grow to 750. Even if you max out Nottingham, that only leaves 50 seats available for the neighborhood portion of the school, not enough for even a single class at each grade level.[/quote]

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