Walt Disney’s Math-O-Mart

Abstract

First paragraph: Walt Disney School in Chicago, Illinois is a magnet school whose philosophy is multi-cultural education. It has an open classroom approach and houses grades Pre- Kindergarten through eight. There are eight classes per grade and a total of eighteen hundred students in the school. There is a multicultural lottery system to attend, and as many as twenty different cultures and different languages are found at the school. Teaching jobs are very competitive. Applicants must go through rigorous interviews, classroom observations, and oral exams to be appointed by a board.