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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait, so if Reed gets delayed, are they planning to delay the entire Elementary boundary /option-moving process?[/quote]

No, because they still would need to do boundaries for Fleet, and they still would have to deal with schools like ASFS, McKinley and Oakridge that are massively overcrowded. Plus, if they do a fourth high school they may need to find a new home for Montessori in this process because Henry would come down a lot sooner than originally thought. No Reed would mean that NW is off the table for an option program, because it'll have a significant seat deficit without Reed.[/quote]

North Arlington would have room for Montessori at Jamestown.[/quote]

That isn’t happening, no matter how many times you repeat it. It isn’t even in the mix.[/quote]

I agree that it’s not likely to happen, but I’m not sure how you can say it’s not in the mix after Monday.[/quote]

I say it’s not in the mix because 90% of things they may say are being discussed aren’t actually in the mix of things actually being discovered. I could tell them to take a golf club by eminent domain to build a school and they would list it as under discussion but it wouldn’t be in the mix.[/quote]

The school board openly acknowledged they will need to find a new home for Montessori if they decide to go ahead with the comprehensive high school plan. Granted, we don’t know which way the high school discussions will come out, but there’s really nothing we can know for sure about the elementary planning process until that decision is made and we know which elementary schools, if any, will be sacrificed for it.[/quote]

Probably none, is my guess. It's backers are vocal and o'Grady is on the SB, but montesorri has never had the sort of protected status many seem to think it has. The old timers in Nauck basically kicked it out of Drew over a decade of lobbying; there's a lot of history there that I don't want to discount but it's a drastically different community than it was in the early 1970s and most of the people who moved in since 2000 and with children would prob prefer Montessori to have stayed at Drew. Who wouldn't, given the uncertain alternative that will unfold over the next year? That said, I'm glad the move finally forced aps to do something about the graded program. Another prob for montesorri is the instructional model isn't reducible to a marketing slogan like the other option schools (ATS: traditionally waspy, sir and ma'am!; immersion: half the day in Spanish, buenas tardes!; Campbell: time for a nature walk, recess=learning!) but I'm open to suggestions :)[/quote]

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