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[quote=Anonymous]I posted above.  I think APS could use ATS as an example of some things that work really well w/out implementing homework and dress code.  I am talking about the emphasis on literacy that I feel goes above and beyond what we saw at our last APS school. I think it also involves teaching much more than the VA Standards of Learning requirements.  That's a great baseline, but kids can and should learn more than that.   It also has a culture of expecting "great things" from every teacher, child, administrator and valuing parents as key partners in their child's learning journey.  
Why couldn't those things work at other APS schools? I am not saying they don't exist any some other APS schools (I know for sure they do and that there are many excellent neighborhood schools), but I do not believe they exist consistently across APS schools, and that's a pity.

Rather than tear ATS down and say it shouldn't exist (no one here on this thread has said it but I hear it A LOT)  wouldn't parents who are unhappy with their child's school be better served to use ATS as a  model of some (not all) of the types of things they would like to see implanted across the board? Just a thought.

If you ask APS to get rid of ATS, how does that send a message that you'd like to see some of the same qualities at your neighborhood school?[/quote]

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