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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree w having more option schools. The answer is to follow the ATS model in neighborhood schools. We seem to be moving in opposite direction though w equity grading. [/quote]

I guess I could never get a good feel for what "traditional" meant.  I realize there's a heavy emphasis on reading and homework every day.  And tucking in shirts (maybe that went away).

But I asked the principal at an info session (this was in 2018) and she gave me this line about the school having walls with doors.  I was SO confused.  My kid's neighborhood school has walls and doors?

I know the school culture is most likely a bit part of what makes kids successful.  But if the ideas there are so well done, why aren't we doing it APS wide?  [b]What is the main difference between the way ATS does teaching and the rest of the county?  I don't' want to hear it's kindergarten kids reading for 30 minutes a night.  That's not a curriculum.[/b][/quote]

ATS holds all their students to a high standard of reading and reading is a true part of their culture. That's the difference.  [/quote]

Right, which it can ONLY do because it's an option school.  So if it DOES NOT WORK for some children (say, those who struggle with reading!) they will not attend ATS, or they will be asked to leave.

That's EXACTLY why it can not be moved into every elementary school.  The population self selects into children with certain skills and abilities very quickly.[/quote]

False. My kid with dyslexia was not given proper instruction at neighborhood school. Got into ATS by some miracle or I bribed somebody, hard to say, and my kid got amazing remediation. Also, they double literacy time in early elementary. Double of what neighborhood schools do. That's different.[/quote]

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