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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite quote from when my kids were in a neighborhood school and we’d have to listen to the ATS parents at soccer practice, “I’d never send my kids to a school with kids with the type of parents that send their kids to ATS.”[/quote]

ATS parents generally don't talk about being at ATS with others for this reason, your jealously and soccer teams are largely ES based so, unless this is travel, you are lying. [/quote]

My exposure is to parents from a different APS option school... but I know exactly what they mean. It's not all of the parents by any means, but there are a subset of parents who say things like the option schools are "public school +" that are absolutely insufferable. If you don't believe me go look in the archives for the threads protesting the great site swap of 2021. [/quote]

So you are saying there aren’t patents from neighborhood schools that are obsessed with praising their neighborhood school? There is clearly a problem on this board where parents who don’t send their kids to ATS are obsessed with talking about it and seem to believe they know what the school is like even though their kids don’t go there. [/quote]

This response is exactly what they are talking about, actually. It's anxious about justifying your choices and also condescending about everyone else's choices. You are the neurotic parent subtype that disproportionately drawn to APS option schools.

That said, ATS is good! Kids do well there! Those kids would also do well anywhere else.   [/quote]

No im not condescending others peoples choices. I’m responding to the PP who just said that all people talk about during sport practices is how no one wants to send their kids to a school with the types of parents that send their kids to ATS. My response to this is that annoying parents exist everywhere. There are annoying parents who are obsessed with justifying their decision to send their kids to their neighborhood school and there are annoying parents who are obsessed with justifying their decision to send their kids to ATS. Yet people on this board, and PP is a perfect example of this type, are obsessed with criticizing ATS and ATS parents.[/quote]

The derision definitely cuts both ways. When we were zoned for Taylor and sent our kids to Key for immersion, we got looks. Especially when we continued immersion and sent our kids to (gasp!) south Arlington middle and high schools instead of the coveted north Arlington schools that were our neighborhood schools. To each their own. 
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