Cobb?

[ellacie]

Cobb Montessori is moving out of Cobb and into its own school.
Possibility of Cobb doing a FBBP or French immersion?

[SUZANN...@lw.com]

That location is ideal (we live a few blocks away!), but I've heard
that their administration has not been very open to these ideas. The
Montessori is moving out in part due to the friction between the
general school population and the seemingly "enthusiastic" middle
class white crowd that has moved in via the Montessori program. I
don't mean to say the general school population is not enthusiastic or
any less capable of supporting the school - to the contrary - but
they have felt like the Montessori crowd was just moving in on their
turf and had different ideas. I think our initiative would likely
create the same clash (whether real or just perceived) and they'd
never be interested in even trying it any time soon, sadly. But, what
do I know?

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[Frank Murphy]

I agree with Suzanne's assessment. I think that Rachel Norton put it
best in her blog about the Cobb/Montessori debacle:

"We shouldn�t just plop programs down in schools that didn�t ask for
them or participate in the program placement decisions."
- Rachel Norton http://rachelnorton.com/2010/01/13/what-a-night/

Trying to pick a school from a map and hope that it'll be accepted is
kind of the way the district has been working for adding new programs,
but it's clear that it's not the way it will be working after the Cobb
problems.

[Kazz Regelman]

Out of curiousity, what do they do with the Montessori program then?  Where did they find a space for that?

 
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:20:21 -0800
> From: fjmu...@gmail.com
> To: french-education-i...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ SF French ] Cobb?

>
> I agree with Suzanne's assessment. I think that Rachel Norton put it
> best in her blog about the Cobb/Montessori debacle:
>

> "We shouldn’t just plop programs down in schools that didn’t ask for

[Frank Murphy]

The are moving it to 2340 Jackson St., near Alta Plaza. Apparently it's
the old Newcomer High School that's been vacant for a while. When I'd
asked about unused school properties last Spring, this one wasn't mentioned.

Here's the SF Gate article about the decisions last night:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/13/BAUF1BH8N7.DTL

Frank

Kazz Regelman wrote:
> Out of curiousity, what do they do with the Montessori program then?
> Where did they find a space for that?
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:20:21 -0800
> > From: fjmu...@gmail.com
> > To: french-education-i...@googlegroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [ SF French ] Cobb?
> >
> > I agree with Suzanne's assessment. I think that Rachel Norton put it
> > best in her blog about the Cobb/Montessori debacle:
> >

> > "We shouldn�t just plop programs down in schools that didn�t ask for

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[David Golden]

An elementary school with a max student population of ~200 (Cobb is ~157 now, and I'm guessing the max is ~200) is physically too small to support two competing programs. There will be an inevitable death struggle. 

Consider the numbers. 100 students means that you'd have just 16 students on average for a single class of each grade from K-5. The district would lose a ton of money.

For a comparison, Clarendon ES supports two programs, but has a total student census of 565.

ellacie <lisa....@gmail.com> Jan 14 11:11AM -0800 ^