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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So now that the Superintendent's proposed CIP calls for tearing down the Henry building in a few years, shouldn't we be including the Montessori school in this planning process? If not, what are we doing with that program? Montessori to Nottingham?[/quote]

That could perhaps be an idea!!!  Perhaps Nottingham could stay neighborhood, but with a smaller attendance zone, and add Montessori.  I know it didn't work out well at Drew, but I think there was a different dynamic there.  It is worth exploring.  Many Montessori parents have happily traveled to Discovery and Jamestown for a while, and have hoped to get a Montessori spot there, so Nottingham is not further.  I'm not sure, but it should be looked at.[/quote]

How big is the Nottingham building? The Montessori school will be about 500 kids at that point. Could you fit neighborhood kids in addition to that? I don't see them going back to a hybrid set up.[/quote]

APS has said no more hybrid schools. I don’t know where you put it if they decide to tear down Henry. It also seems like they aren’t budgeting for having to build another school for it. They know they will need a new neighborhood school around 2025 but that will be needed for neighborhood seats.  To build two new schools seems like a stretch with all of the other building projects.

This is where the AB needs to take a serious look at all of the option programs and decide if each one is worth continuing. And I would bet that once it is time to move Montessori again the NW Quadrant  schools will again be bursting at the seams. [/quote]

Getting rid of options programs doesn't make the students in them disappear. APS will still need to find seats for them. The Superintendent's proposed CIP shows an ES seats deficit of 1424 in 2027. After you tear down Henry, the seat deficit would rise to about 1900. The proposal doesn't call for a new ES coming online until 2029. We will surely have more than a 2000 seat deficit at that time. And the Superintendent calls for one new 725 seat ES. It will not be enough even if you destroy all the options schools.[/quote]

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