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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another option is piggyback on Montessori growth and build it into HS. Pedagogy is problem-based and differentiated learning, which is what HB-types want. The site exists: Career Center. The student feeder system exists, including MPSA and Gunston Montessori MS programs now. If ArlTech gets its new building, the old ArlTech building can be renovated and built up vertically to be a Prek-12 Montessori academy. This kills a lot of birds with one stone, including best-use of dollars in capital improvement plan when it comes to long term school construction (MPSA building must get overhauled/torn down anyway this decade as built in 1974). Above all it provides extra HS seat capacity via an option program that we know wil draw students. [/quote]

This is just Montessori advocate propaganda.
There aren't that many interested in Montessori, especially at the high school level.  Montessori persistently points out that you can't just transfer into a Montessori program mid-way without prior Montessori experience.  So what you're really hoping for here is a pre-K-12 Montessori program period.  Renovating the CC building for that isn't going to provide another full high school's worth of seats.  It has to double or triple or quadruple its K-8 program.  And would your Montessori academy have its own full complement of extracurriculars and athletics, so Montessori students don't have to go back to their neighborhood schools like HB and AT do?  Or do you think Montessori, HB and AT would be interested in - and willing and able to - combine for their own league?  In either scenario, I would hope you are advocating for full athletic fields and facilities with the CC site redevelopment - not just for a Montessori academy.

As for your comment that the current MPSA building "must get overhaulted/torn down anyway this decade as built in 1974," it does need to come down; but not because it was built in 1974.  We have several buildings that are older than that.
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