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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Old APS parent here. Knowing what I know now, I absolutely would have applied to send my kids to ATS (we did not even lottery, though I did learn about it at kindergarten info night).

How I think of it is, ATS runs like schools ran when I was a kid. Traditional. Other APS schools are trying new models that generally are not proven and not as effective.

We switched to Catholic during Covid which also runs a more traditional model, but which you pay for out of pocket.

I do think we should add another ATS. The question is where to put it, because you have to take offline an existing ES, and that's a nightmare like all boundary stuff is.

But as an Arlington taxpayer, I would love to see all our schools swinging back toward a more traditional learning model.

I also completely agree on the importance of having one teacher who really gets to know your kid and be invested in them. I hated when our APS elem started rotating kids in 4th grade and all those connections got broken.[/quote]

Love Montessori for the reason of my kids teachers knowing them for years. Also why we should have more Montessori in APS. Waitlist similar to ATS, and it reserves more spots for underprivileged, and even raises revenue for coffers. I'm not against ATS existing - let it be. But disagree with trying to grow it: too much pain (boundaries) for too little ROI (secret sauce loses power has population grows p, kind of like how flying in airplanes went from luxury to ghetto as mainstream America started doing it regularly). [/quote]

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