So motivated and poor = not deserving of support and dollars?? Only unmotivated should get dollars? |
This! |
Did you even read the thread? People just want all the eligible schools (including ATS) to apply for the federal funds. Only one person said orherwise. |
Seems like APS is making the determination that only the motivated AND poor get additional funds. Unmotivated and poor? We don’t need to apply. |
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ATS parent. Some of you don't know anything about ATS and it shows.
I've never met a really wealthy parent at ATS. There are alot of immigrants families. Asian, South Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, African. White families are in the minority. ATS has two bilingual family specialists. The one who's been there the longest speaks Spanish. PP is right about the immigrant families taking school very seriously. Almost the entire school turns out for school events. Low-income families are very involved. Admin expects parent involvement and and does not coddle parents. |
This is not true. |
According to APS’ published data, ATS is minority white at 35%. So why do you say it’s not true? This is much lower than the N Arlington ES. |
Oh, so you get to group ALL other races together? If so, let’s group white and Asian together, as Asians aren’t considered URMs in elite schools. Tell me, which race is >35% at the school? |
Do you understand how math works? By simple math, white families are in the minority Information from ATS website. Total Student Enrollment, PreK-5: 663 Students who receive English as a second language support, K-5: 37.3% Number of Languages Spoken: 24 Minority Population: 66% https://ats.apsva.us/general-information/ Not all immigrant families are non-white. Not all non-white families are low-income. Not all immigrant families are low-income. It's a really diverse school. The common denominator is that families have chosen to be there. |
DP. You say "white families are in the minority". Then you say "Minority Population: 66%". ?? |
No one is saying it’s not diverse. But if you break it down by race, white isn’t the smallest group. |
But it’s becoming MORE low income, hence the Title 1 designation. |
Someone posted that “it wasn’t true” that whites were in the minority at ATS, but the facts is that whites are 1/3 of ATS as compared to 3/4 at most N Arlington schools. |
So what? If you’re making the point that the primary factor in student achievement is parental involvement (not skin color or income level), then I 100% agree with you. |
| And I think they were saying that whites aren’t the smallest racial group at ATS, which you were implying. |