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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My two girls are at ATS and yes there is a high Mongolian population. I asked one of the Mongolian moms why this is the case. She told me that the Mongolian community works hard to encourage Mongolians to apply to the VPI program and if they don’t qualify then for the kindergarten lottery. One Mongolian will bring another and getting into ATS has become a thing to strive for. As to why ATS, she said it’s because it’s the closest to what school was like back home, where there are rules and academics are the focus. Also she likes the fact that there are a lot of Mongolians in the school because that way her child doesn’t feel different. I think most immigrant parents have the same rationale. [b]We want our kids to go to a school where the focus is on academics and behavior.[/b] It’s not everyone’s cup of tea I understand but that’s what many of us value. In fact many of us wish there were uniforms lol! I was just talking to a parent who felt that ATS isn’t strict enough haha.  [/quote]

This is why ASFS was so popular with the Mongolian community for generations—a similar focus academics. The school might still be popular with Mongolian families, but I’m not sure.

When ATS was created, it was inspired by earlier methods of teaching and learning from the 1950s and 60s as a response to the open classroom trend. Uniforms were not part of a traditional public education, but dress codes were, hence the unique ATS dress code. (Uniforms in public schools came about in the 1990s in inner cities due to fights over shoes and clothes and also gangs then identified with certain colors/styles.)[/quote]

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