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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I ask why everyone is so hellbent on eliminating ATS? I don’t want to start another war about the lottery process, etc. I’m just confused that so many on this thread recommend eliminating it in favor of other option programs. Why should it be chopped instead of any other option program? It’s one of the most successful schools in the county. I agree that it’s formula should be replicated elsewhere so more people can benefit.  Killing it outright has never made any sense to me. [/quote]

I have been commenting on the elimination of ats not because I want it to happen, but because the school board has not included it in their IPP. I don’t want to waste time speculating whether ATS will stay or move, and where, when it probably won’t exist in a few years. Who knows, maybe they’ll keep it, but that doesn’t appear to be the case based on published IPP materials or recent work sessions. [/quote]

But it will be replaced by IB.  They’re not reducing the number of option schools, just redesigning one of them.  It will still need a home.[/quote]

Yes, but IB is something totally different. The school would no longer be ATS.

On a related note for those who haven’t been following the IPP process closely, it’s pay attention time. The SB is working with recommendations and considering a lot of changes from pk to 12. They are not working piecemeal a la the failed Key/ASFS swap, but looking holistically at the entire system. There is the possibility that there will be upper and lower elementaries, preschool classes will be shuffled around, option programs will be moved, changed or eliminated, Arlington tech may morph into early college or something else, and all sorts of other fun stuff. There are a lot of big changes potentially coming our way.[/quote]

[b]I just watched the work session. LS was the only person making any of the suggestions that PP mentions above (upper/lower, etc). My favorite part of the session was when Reid asked her about the swap, and she said "The swap doesn't make sense." Lololol. If it doesn't make sense today, how did it make any sense a year ago when it was announced? I wish I could have seen PM's face when she said that. [/quote][/b]

It was the same work session last year where Murphy announced the swap as a done deal-- it was his decision and his decision alone.  Would have been nice to see BK's face too-- she and a staff member went to ASFS last fall and suggested to all the angry parents that they could light candles as a way to get closure over losing their school.

It's amazing to me all the time and tax-payer resources that went into promoting the swap.  I really hope it was PK's baby because otherwise someone needs to leave APS for being so inept and basically setting the whole location review process back a year. 
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