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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why all the tension around ATS? It seems like either people love it or they are bashing it. We have a rising kinder and we did try for the lottery but didn't get a slot. We were bummed however I still feel like it is a very good school. [/quote]

The tension is either from people who:

(1)  feel slighted that people applied to it and therefore dissed their neighborhood school. They feel like by choosing ATS, those people are saying that ATS is superior to the neighborhood school which they send their kid to
(2) they are angry that they didn't get in and therefore keep dissing the school to make themselves feel better
(3) they are annoyed by the claim that its is a superior school because of its stats. This makes them feel inadequate so they find a way to explain away why ATS is doing so well. 
(4) ATS parents who keep hearing criticisms of ATS and their choice to put their kids there, so become overly defensive 
(5) parents who truly dislike the "traditional" pedology. They feel the school caters to social conservatives and hate what they believe the school represents. They are ideologically opposed to the dress code for example, ideologically opposed to direct instruction (as opposed to progressive education) and directly opposed to behavioral standards (feel that children should be free to be who they are).  These are the group of ATS haters that I have the most sympathy with. Because it is actually based on something. The rest really are jealous or misinformed.[/quote]

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