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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's remember that ATS's "success" refers to its standardized test scores. You may like it's culture or not. But if your kid didn't get in and you're disappointed, you can replicate the requirements and test prep at home while your kid attends their neighborhood school.

And in 6th grade it won't matter anymore.[/quote]

Why should parents have to fill the gaps for schools that aren’t teaching their kids to read and do math? This is not a new problem in APS.  I give the superintendent credit for putting it on a dash board for the community to see how many kids in APS need support for foundational skills.

ATS is getting it right which is why the wait list is so huge there. [/quote]

You do know that other schools are teaching kids, right? If you want your kid to play an instrument and tuck in their shirt, insist that they do so. If you want your kid to do homework every night, give them some worksheets. If you want your kid held back if they aren't reading in kindergarten, say so. [/quote]

I will insist on all these things and send my kid to a school that insists on all these things. It’s a parent teacher partnership. It is very different when both the parents and the school agree that high academic and behavioral standards are important. It is also very different when all their peers are doing the same thing. All schools are like this. But of course there would be opposition from parents like you who don’t think these things are important. It’s unfortunate because the culture surrounding education and what our kids need needs to change. [/quote]

Thanks for this illustration of how delusional ATS parents are, I guess.

No one is saying that parents are wrong to like ATS if that's your family's thing. What I am saying is that there are other paths to creating good, productive citizens, and by the time your kid has graduated from high school, there will be no discernible difference between kids who attended ATS and kids who went elsewhere. "High academic and behavioral standards" take a lot of forms, and it's possible to insist on both without tucked-in shirts.

My kids have all graduated from high school and gotten into the sorts of colleges parents here drool over. [b]And they did it while becoming kind, funny, responsible people who embrace the weirdness of other people.[/b] [/quote]
So HB instead of ATS, then. [/quote]

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