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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t we move Montessori back into Drew?

I know politics but is that really going to get in the way of the most obvious and cheapest fix?[/quote]

That was a terrible idea then and a terrible idea today. Drew deserves to be its own neighborhood school.  AMAC needs to stop sucking all of the oxygen. [/quote]

Why does Drew "deserve" this when it's chronically under enrolled and bleeding money? What about what's good for the rest of the system?

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Why does MPSA "deserve" its own program?  It's basically middle class white parents who want APS to build them a private school. What about what's good for the rest of the system? [/quote]

I don't disagree, let's just combine MPSA and Drew. MPSA will get a building and Drew will be filled up. Problem solved. [/quote]

I don't even understand why they were separated in the first place. MPSA was put in a much crappier building, while Drew never really got that influx of students. I chalk it to APS Planning Department being the planning department. They've never gotten it right.[/quote]

No, the result was entirely predictable and not planning’s fault. MPSA highjacked the SAWG to get out of Drew, and then then highjacked the Career Center BLPC to get a new facility for Pre-K-8 on site. They have too many people in the right advisory groups, on the SB, and CB to be stopped. They have organized in a way that no other parent group has and been very effective in getting what they want and making it look like it wasn’t even their doing.

Drew being just a neighborhood school with the old neighborhood boundaries was not going to fill, planning knew it, so did the SB, that’s why Babs said they could just move more of the Pre-K programs there rather than drawing a larger boundary if it came to that. And honestly, even with a larger boundary that assumes parents won’t use other means to not attend a high poverty school. Frankly, it’s better that a high poverty school be underenrolled anyway. More resources for fewer kids who need them. If any schools have to be consolidated it will be those in the NW, where no growth is expected.[/quote]

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