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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a neighborhood school, it's a lottery.

It's stricter,  has a dress code and has homework.

Classes are bigger.

It's generally used by people trying to escape neighborhood schools that have a lot of poverty.

I only know a few people who have kids there, and they have said that it's hard to schedule playdates and get to know families since they oftentimes don't speak English as their first language. 
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ATS family here. I do not agree with the "it's hard to schedule playdates and get to know families since they often times don't speak English as their first language". The school is diverse in many ways since it's lottery, however, it isn't hard to meet families or set up outside school activates if that is something you are interested in doing. [/quote]

Another ATS family - easy to schedule playdates with classmates from ATS. Neighborhood kids? Good luck. [b]Every new family we meet in our neighborhood groans when we say we go to ATS. [/b]If they just moved to Arlington (all those new people!) and we say ATS, they have no idea, but [b]the next time we see them you see the jealousy.[/b][/quote]

This sounds like it has to do with how you're talking about ATS vs. the fact that your kids go there. [/quote]

To you and the other poster, it just comes up: "Oh, where do your children go?" when they learn its not the local school. When we say ATS, I get some hard eye rolls from those who didn't get the lottery. FWIW, we live in south Arlington, in a planning unit with lots of people who do option schools, mostly immersion. Those families don't care, but the ones who attend our zoned school will straight up roll their eyes at us and the nice ones will at least tell us they wish we were at the same school because they could use more kids whose families would be involved in school. I don't think that is narcissistic to notice when people roll their eyes at you for answering what school your kids go to. [/quote]

People don't care that much, they just know you will be useless as a potential playmate for their kid.[/quote]

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