APS - Traditional elementary

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Also the idea that ATS doesn't foster independence while other schools do is just not true. I don't have experience with ATS but your typical elementary school isn't fostering independence.

Our elementary school talked a lot about how to make good decisions and solve problems. It stressed developmental appropriateness. I don't care if parents love rules, but rule-following is not the same thing as discipline

So does ATS. Like all APS schools we have wonderful kind teachers and two excellent counselors. Socio emotional learning is emphasized throughout. At BTSN yesterday my first grader’s teacher emphasized the importance of allowing children to make mistakes and making sure that they know mistakes are okay, fostering independence (one of her major goals of the year), making sure children feel safe in the classroom (emotionally as well as physically)… I can go on. What bothers me about all these anti-ATS posts is that they come from people who had no experience with the school. Why make assumptions about a school you have no experience with? And why make assumptions about what an ATS parent thinks or believes when you aren’t actually that person?

What bothers me about the ATS-worshippers who say people have no experience with the school is that they are discounting experience with APS students who they know from activities, etc. I'm not blaming ATS for every crappy thing its students do or for every graduate who has to be told wat to do, but it was hard to take the parents gushing over ATS when their kids were the meanest (or at least most thoughtless) ones at summer camp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Also the idea that ATS doesn't foster independence while other schools do is just not true. I don't have experience with ATS but your typical elementary school isn't fostering independence.

Our elementary school talked a lot about how to make good decisions and solve problems. It stressed developmental appropriateness. I don't care if parents love rules, but rule-following is not the same thing as discipline

So does ATS. Like all APS schools we have wonderful kind teachers and two excellent counselors. Socio emotional learning is emphasized throughout. At BTSN yesterday my first grader’s teacher emphasized the importance of allowing children to make mistakes and making sure that they know mistakes are okay, fostering independence (one of her major goals of the year), making sure children feel safe in the classroom (emotionally as well as physically)… I can go on. What bothers me about all these anti-ATS posts is that they come from people who had no experience with the school. Why make assumptions about a school you have no experience with? And why make assumptions about what an ATS parent thinks or believes when you aren’t actually that person?

What bothers me about the ATS-worshippers who say people have no experience with the school is that they are discounting experience with APS students who they know from activities, etc. I'm not blaming ATS for every crappy thing its students do or for every graduate who has to be told wat to do, but it was hard to take the parents gushing over ATS when their kids were the meanest (or at least most thoughtless) ones at summer camp

NP here. This is just silly. Let me get this straight. Only ATS parents gush over their school? My kids go to Tuckahoe. I talk about how great the school is all the time because we absolutely love it. I’m not the only Tuckahoe parent who gushes over our school. Gushing parents are a testament of how good a school is. A school must be doing something right if the parents love it so much.

What’s even sillier is if some parent told me I shouldn’t gush over my school because of a bunch of Tuckahoe kids were being mean to their kid in summer camp. What does one have to do with the other? There are mean kids everywhere. Also kids who go to school together might be cliquey and exclusive. It’s just the way it is and as adults we should step in and help with the integration process.

Your entire post is irrational and petty. (1) Parents are allowed to love their child’s school. It’s a good thing. (2) You can’t judge an entire student body based on mean kids your child interacted with in summer camp. Grow up.