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[quote=Anonymous]we're at ATS. I think it's a combination of factors - the parents who put in the effort to get in through VPI clearly care about their kids' educations, just like the non-VPI parents who make the effort to enter the lottery and visit the school clearly care enough to take those extra steps. Once you get into ATS, they encourage all the rising kindergarteners to attend summer school, so they come in with certain basic skills. There is a fair amount of homework even in K, and they try to combat summer brain drain with reading challenges and math packets. We've never been threatened with the ATS way, though - it's not like that. But you do know in the back of your mind that if your kid misbehaves, you might end up back at your home school. I panicked when my daughter was acting up in K because if we'd had to go back to ours, we'd be SOL for extended day, as our home school's extended day was full.[/quote]
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