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[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]

Fortunately, I believe Drew did get all of its PTA leadership positions filled - disputing many peoples' claims that low-income parents don't get involved.  But it isn't unusual at other schools for the same handful of people to be doing everything, too.

It's not just one person grinding the axe.  I'm one of the commenters regarding the "PTA abandonment" issue (there was a second person, too).  But it was not me asserting anything about the Montessori FRL stats. I don't know why you think it's just rumor and mudslinging.  [/quote]

Are you a parent in the graded program? Do you actually know or is this just what you've heard? If the answers are no and yes, well, that's why someone suggested this tale is probably a lot of bs and rumor.[/quote]

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