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[quote=Anonymous]Can you share your impressions about ATS today and how it has changed since covid and the new principal? Our family is new to Arlington and new to the option schools. We visited to learn about the lottery. The school leaders seemed warm and proud of their school. I was also surprised that the school is supposed to be such an outlier or special because nothing that they talked about seemed particularly innovative or different from what I would expect from a public school. I can see that homework for kindergarteners would not be popular, but other than that, required reading every night is something we would do already. I was surprised at the talk of iPads, the smart boards, and the use of cartoons during the school day. Two of the classrooms we visited saw the kids watching YouTube while getting ready for snack time. Is that pretty common for classroom management?  The parents in both groups chatted afterwards that they were surprised that they would turn on a cartoon video on YouTube to get the kids to be quiet as part of transition time.Is this no big deal or changes due to covid and the new principals they find their way? Or have there been other recent changes? [/quote]

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