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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First they are going to look and see if their option schools are in the right place- of if the option schools need a neighborhood boundary.  (This Spring)  They have been very careful to say that this look will not include looking at which option schools should go where.  
 In doing so (my prediction) is that they will decide that Key should have a neighborhood boundary, and ASFS should be option.
They will then flip the schools.[/quote]

I have a hard time believing the Board would swap out all the students/staff/specific facilities of Key and ASFS. That's a much larger - and expensive - undertaking than what it seems on the surface. There's been years of discussion & planning to move the Montessori program into Patrick Henry. I haven't seen anywhere near that level of talk about Key.[/quote]
Why?  Montessori requires specific classroom configurations.  Does immersion require that?  Asfs is a run of the mill school, there isn't anything specific there other than the science lab and investigation station which wouldn't be movable anyways.  [/quote]

What kind of structural classroom configurations does a Montessori school need that you couldn't simply relocate fixtures and materials to another building?[/quote]
To do Montessori right you need to have big classroom that can fit large amount of kids.  The furniture is supposed to be mostly wood.  It's more than just telling people to go to a different school.[/quote]

Furniture can be moved between schools. I'd be surprised if the classrooms in the schools currently housing Montessori programs are meaningfully bigger than the classrooms in other schools. If they are, one of the solutions could be to move Montessori programs into current neighborhood schools that are long overdue for renovation and then renovate those schools to fit the Montessori programs. Sure, there might be some tough years for the Montessori programs while that's going on, but not unlike what some of the neighborhood schools have gone through with renovation and overcrowding.

Being in Montessori does not make you untouchable. You are no more important than anyone else in the school system.[/quote]

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