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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/old-school/

Eventually, it won't matter where your kid went to ES, but if you think ATS would make your kid (not you) happier for the duration of ES, enter the lottery.

We knew families from preschool who sent their kids to ATS and still get together with their ATS acquaintances. They are fervid in their support of ATS. They are very much into rule-following: those tucked-in shirts, mandatory instrument, homework every day, must read by K, standardized test scores? They dig that stuff.

My kids do better with more autonomy, even if there were times their choices made me nuts. But are they now independent, functioning adults (or clearly on their way) because we let them make their own decisions, or was that going to happen anyway? And on the flip side, are their ATS friends still getting a lot of parental shepherding because they've always needed it (so ATS was a good fit), or did the rigidity of ATS keep them from developing self-reliance?

And yeah, the weirdness of COVID probably didn't help older teenagers/early 20somethings get launched, either. [/quote]

That's just kids being different. Mine did Montessori, one from Pre-K through 5th, one from K through middle school, and neither of them developed that famed independence. I actually think one would have been much happier at ATS, he likes knowing what the rules are and having structure. His favorite thing in elementary was chorus, because the choir director gave clear directions and held everyone to the same standard. [/quote]

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