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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP and MPSA parent here: the proposal to move MPSA to NW is not from the Montessori community. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to stay at CC. There are a few neighborhood activists who want to move MPSA off site – see last school board meeting where one of them proposed moving to the NW.
Montessori haters just gonna hate, but one quick thing that may help others new to the issue: there are roughly 700 APS Montessori students now prek-8 across a half-dozen buildings. There were literally hundreds more applicants this year than open slots – go watch lottery videos for yourself. MPSA and Gunston program will grow more, as they have for years. Whoever said the demand stops after prek is wackadoo. As for shutting down options, that made me laugh. You want 1ks of kids suddenly flooding back into neighbor schools?
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I have no particular views in shutting down MPSA, but your numbers don’t make sense.  If there are roughly 700 students total in MPSA, how does shutting it down result in thousands of kids returning to neighborhood schools.

Also, over 100 of those students are pre-k who don’t need to be accommodated anywhere if there isn’t space to expand VPI.  So really, we’re talking about a little less than 400 elementary students returning to neighborhood schools, and maybe 30 middle school students who aren’t zoned for Gunston to start with.  [/quote]

Montessori parents are not known for being particularly saavy with numbers.[/quote]

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