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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Drew you can’t have it both ways. Either it’s your school or not. How is Montessori’s PTA shameful? Drew needs it’s own PTA. Drew needs to do some of the hard work. It’s starting to sound like a victim . [/quote]

Not Drew, but if it used to be one common PTA, I can see hoping for a transition year where they start moving in their own directions but don't completely divorce from each other yet. That's effectively what happened when Discovery opened. Parents who knew they'd be going there started a Discovery PTA the year before it opened, but most of them who had been involved in the Nottingham PTA previously stayed involved in the Nottingham PTA as well that year, especially where an abrupt departure would have left a gap (e.g., a committee without a chair).[/quote]

This.  There was no need to rush to establish an independent PTA before boundaries for Drew were even drawn.  "Divorcing" early did not help bridge neighborhood program Drew to a school-wide neighborhood Drew with the incoming communities from other schools.  It did not give Drew PTA a chance to draw volunteers and leadership from the new parents who would be coming, which would help get those families invested in Drew as their new school and start building community from the beginning.  Because obviously community needs to be built there since noone is coming willingly.[/quote]

That's a really good point about Drew not even having its new boundaries yet for the transition. They basically have to fill a full school's worth of PTA positions with only half a school, is it any shock they're struggling to do that?[/quote]

Not a Drew montessori parent. But it's pretty clear to me that some individual on here has an axe to grind with them, whether it's claiming they have a 10 percent farms rate (which was easily refuted in the other thread) or that they "abandoned" the graded program. As far as I can tell, it's just rumor and mudslinging and probably mostly BS. The bigger problem is that very poor schools have a very hard time fielding a PTA. Ask someone at Randolph. They have a PTA and my guess it is 4 people doing everything with no help at all.[/quote]

Anyone with access to google can see that the Montessori program has split off to form their own PTA. They can also google to see the difficulty the graded program PTA is having recruiting volunteers. Anyone following the process knows Drew’s new boundaries haven’t been set yet to allow the PTA to recruit from future Drew families.

Obviously the Montessori families are free to do this, but they can’t claim it isn’t a sign of how they regard the graded program.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

Fine, can we get back on topic, which is that APS has made a joke of its own process by creating an island over 2 miles from the school?[/quote]

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