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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are VPI kids at the wealthier schools allowed to stay though? I thought they were not.[/quote]

They're not, and the wealthier schools don't have VPI classrooms for the most part. They have Montessori satellite classrooms, and the Montessori kids can stay for their K year as part of Montessori and then have to return to their home schools for 1st or apply to Drew at 1st. Some may opt to leave before their K year in order to go to their neighborhood school for Kindergarten. Not sure if any data is available about how frequently this occurs, where students aren't completing their final year of preschool Montessori. I think this has been one of the complaints from Montessori advocates, because the classrooms ideally are supposed to have an equal mix of 3-5 year olds, with the 5 year olds being experience in the Montessori method. [/quote]

This is true- there is a lot of loss in Kindergarten especially outside of Drew.  There was a report on this to the school board I think in the spring of 2017.   This is one of the hidden costs of Montessori, participants effectively have two kindergarten seats.

I think the VPI classrooms in the option schools work really well.  They are a way to ensure diversity in the option schools, and for the most part the students then continue.
I think the VPI classrooms in neighborhood schools are effective to, in the sense that it is improving outcomes for vulnerable preschoolers.

[b]To the extent that the purpose of distributing montessori classrooms is an effort to integrate schools- that is totally ineffective.  But I actually don't think that is even the purpose.  I think they just scatter montesorri where they have space.  [/quote][/b]

It's this, they're just putting them where they have space. Which is not great policy. What if they actually balance enrollment during the boundary changes? Then what? Trailers at Henry? [/quote]

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