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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One big difference is parents who are involved and motivated enough to seek a slot at ATS. Your principal can’t do anything about that one.[/quote] Sure but that can’t be only factor? [/quote] It’s the largest contributing factor. Like 90% of the pie.[/quote] OK. Clearly the ATS parents want the credit for their kids' and their school's success. So, yes, absolutely, it is entirely due to the parents who put in for the lottery and accept the slots. Entirely. Not 90%. Because without these specific fabulous parents being involved, the administration might implement instructional changes that they make the other neighborhood schools do. So, KUDOS to you parents!!! [/quote] Are you reading the same thread? ATS parents are saying other schools could do more of what ATS is doing. Parental involvement matters but parents are choosing ATS because what they are doing works. ATS deserves the credit and I don't blame parents for lining up to go to ATS. PP is right that parents put in what the school expects of them. It harder than ever in APS to know how your kid is doing. Schoolwork rarely sent home, homework packets depend on the school, grading is usually a cut and paste affair and you're not sure if the comments about "johnny" apply to your "Jenny". At least APS is finally figuring out how to teach kids to read but ATS was doing that for decades. [/quote] They claim ATS' success is 90% due to the self-selection by parents. That makes the parents responsible for the success. I fully agree that APS should be making all of our ES more like ATS. But I'm tired of people crediting the bulk of its success on parents' selection. ATS works well for most students. Period. Not because their parents chose the program.[/quote] Does ATS have kids with a lot of unexcused absences? Does ATS have parents who don’t EVER show up to parent-teacher conferences? When a child is combative at ATS, what happens when that child’s parents shrug their shoulders?[/quote] ATS parent here of a 3rd grader who doesn’t go to conferences because the teachers send so many individualized reports home. I’m a single parent and can’t always make the conferences with work and another kido. But it doesn’t even matter because from week one I hear exactly how my child is doing and what is happening with them each and every week. [/quote] ATS parent here. Yep there are definitely parents who don’t sign up for conferences and those who don’t show up. Not sure the reason but perhaps it is because a lot of the parents don’t have time and trust they ATS is doing what they can to educate their child. Not everyone shows up to back to school night either. Around half of the parents with kids in my second grader’s class showed up to Back to School Night. [/quote]
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