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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry.  The only possible answer for ATS’s success is that really smart parents chose ATS.      Closing the achievement gap forever remains a unicorn because poor kids don’t have involved  parents. Let’s just stop trying and give everyone a trophy so they don’t feel bad about themselves and call it day. [/quote]

OK. So let's make ATS employ the same rules and policies and curriculum and instructional methods as any other neighborhood school, especially like our "worst performing" ones. There should be absolutely no difference in outcomes at ATS, then, right? Cause the smart parents picking it is the only possible answer for its success.[/quote]

Someone earlier said raise standards and expectations and let the chips fall where they may.

They used to do that, and it didn’t look so good when you compared different demographics.[/quote]

I said that, and it wasn’t coming from a place of ambivalence for other people’s kids.  My family has several public school teachers, including someone who taught at a Title 1 school with a free and reduced lunch population of 95 percent-  higher than any APS school.

Yes different demographics will look different- in bad ways- no matter what the school does.  I think most folks folks on this board just have different ideas of how this issue could be addressed by the schools, if at all.  Keep in mind, the schools can’t do everything.  [/quote]

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