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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Split ATS and make Drew the S. Arlington version and the current ATS the N. Arlington version, like Key and Claremont.  It increases ATS spots, which is extremely popular, and will fill Drew.  Then close Nottingham.[/quote]

Not going to happen WRT Drew. It’s untouchable as a neighborhood school and with a seat deficit predicted in the adjacent Oakridge zone, it’s going to get more kids. [/quote]
Redistricting students to Drew is just going to make parents unhappy.  If you make it an option school, you don't reduce the number of seats and parents voluntarily enroll instead of kicking and screaming about being moved.[/quote]

Stop beating a dead horse. You’re not incorrect that parents will be mad, but it is what it is.

The seat surplus is most acute in the NW. Just move Pre-K-6 Montessori there and close the 7-8 middle years and be done with it. Then we don’t need a crazy expensive build out at the Career Center site. Saves money there, frees up a little space at Gunston, and prevents APS from having to sell more land if they “close” a school in the NW. Why are we contorting ourselves and going into debt to expand an option program that is NOT desired by the overall community and taxpayers? There is NO waitlist for the MS years. It’s a ridiculous concept for that age group. Keep it through 6th since that’s the cohort grouping of 3 years. Tear down the old CC and Henry buildings and add some more green space for the kids at the CC and to offset the heat island along the Pike and for the community along the Pike to use when school isn’t in session. [/quote]

APS elementary is K-5. Middle school is 6-8.
Welcome to Arlington and to the discussion.[/quote]

OMG, no sh**. But Montessori has 3 year cohorts. No reason why they can’t make an exception for the one school program and let them keep their 3 year groupings, with it ending in 6th, and eliminating the separate 6-8 program entirely. It’s called give-and-take. They have their model with more fidelity and we don’t have to keep paying for or make space at any MS for the Montessori MS program. You know they use this 3 year model as an argument for continuing into HS, and once they get their CC building that’s exactly what they’ll try next. [b]It never ends. Enough[/b]! FFS[/quote]
Exactly. So end it all. You know they aren't going to stand for their kids coming into the middle of middle school as the "new" kids.[/quote]

I don’t think we have to end it all, just draw a line. It’s really too much. A neighbor of mine was complaining that  Montessori kids didn’t automatically get into HB. Those parents are the worst, literal worst and make all option schools/parents look bad. The entitlement is astonishing. [/quote]

Aren't the HB and Montessori programs kind of similar?  If so, I can see your neighbor's point.[/quote]

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