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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most absurd are the parents who swear by the structure of ATS, then send their kids to HB. [/quote]

I don't think that's absurd at all. My kid needed structured environment in ES then they were mature enough to attend HB. ATS had given them every tools to be successful in a less structured environment.

What's absurd about that?[/quote]

“My kid needs structure” until that option is gone..”My kid needs freedom”… ugh. It all means, “ I wan’t a private school but want someone else to pay for it.” If you’ve never sent your kids to their neighborhood school, you don’t know how they would respond to it. ATS is an excuse for elitism with no tangible benefit. [/quote]

You are wrong about this. I live in bounds for Drew and we did the Montessori side because it seemed like a better fit for my kids who are both strongly self-directed, which was right for my first but turned out to be a disaster for my second kid, who also has ADHD. I DID pay for private school for middle school to make sure he learned the skills he did not get in Montessori, like how to read a book and write about it and how to do homework. Things he would have learned if we had sent him to ATS instead of Montessori.

We also certainly would have been alerted to his deficiencies much earlier at ATS. I don't think we would have if he had been in the graded program at Drew, because he was an early reader and a quick learner so he would have been fine in a cohort of students with as much turnover as they see at Drew--the graded program had lots of kids behind grade level and he would have been able to easily keep up. It's somewhere like ATS--with a very focused curriculum, lots of attention to student progress, very clear expectations etc. that he would have gotten the attention and help he needed to learn the [u]skills[/u] he needed to learn in elementary, and that we ended up having to pay for him to learn in middle school.

That said, he got into H-B in the 9th grade lottery and I have no concerns about him going there. The teachers provide lots of feedback so he will continue to get strengthening in areas like writing where he needs it, and they are small enough that he is not going to be lost in the cracks (or be able to hide). He will be with academic-focused kids and have consistent faculty support in learning how to manage his independent will, things that would be easy to avoid in his large home school. [/quote]

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