Reply to If ATS is so popular, why not create two of them?

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "If ATS is so popular, why not create two of them?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want to state my personal desire to not turn APS into a lottery of ATS, specialized school options.  Neighborhood schools have tremendous value and having your children be able to wander the streets with their friends and knowing the families in each house is worth a lot more to me than these specialized options and knowing that MY school is the BEST scoring elementary school in Arlington is so stupid to me I can’t even tell you. [/quote]

I see what you are saying now.

You do realize that some neighborhoods are split up and not everyone is assigned to a school full of SFHs where the kids can just wander the streets, right?[/quote]

And there are ways to connect with your neighborhood community so your kids still know the other kids and "wander the streets" with them. Does your neighborhood have community events like holiday parades, block parties, community service in the park days, babysitting co-op, parent group? Or you get to know your neighbors, host pot-lucks in the front or back yard, take walks with your kids and talk to the others out in their yards, etc? Just because your kid goes to an option school doesn't mean they can't also have friends and know the people in the neighborhood. My neighborhood is full of kids going to several different schools (every option school you can list as well as different private schools); yet we and our kids still know those kids and their parents - or at least several of them....we don't know everyone in the neighborhood and now that we're in high school, we're learning about others we didn't even know lived in our neighborhood.[/quote]

That flew right over your head.  Many kids are assigned to schools with multi family housing or in busy areas where they can’t wander the streets.  As a PP said,  not every neighborhood in Arlington is Mayberry.[/quote]

:roll: My point is, there are other ways to get to know your neighbors and have the sense of safety the PP says is a priority for her over the "best" school. It sounded to me, from the comment about being able to wander the streets with your friends, they're in more of a Mayberry set-up than not. But even in multi-family housing neighborhoods, friends can wander the streets together.[/quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics