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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ATS should mandate 2/3rds of slots for lower socioeconomic and minority students, similar to how Montessori does their prek. I have no problem with ATS existing or being a home for attentive parents. But it should favor disadvantaged every step of the way. And, please don't tell me it's FRL rate is similar or better than other schools, that is truly irrelevant. It's FRL needs to be twice the worst neighborhood school, and it's student demographics needs to flip the stats of U.S. public. Then you know it's really serving those who need it in our society. [/quote]

Yeah, no. No one’s gonna go for that. You’d be better off advocating for ATS-style teaching at Drew or something.[/quote]

Drew needs something. All the fighting to get a neighborhood school and it still has the same abysmal achievement outcomes. I live next door and would have zero issue with making it ATS 2 with [b]guaranteed admission for neighborhood kids[/b]. Then the 25 kids at the ATS hub stop at Drew can come back to their neighborhood school..[/quote]

absolutely NOT!
Took years to eliminate geographical guarantee to immersion. APS should never, ever go back.
1. not equitable or fair
2. people move into the neighborhood for the guaranteed admission and the school becomes too crowded with few outside the geographical boundary able to access
Never again. [/quote]

I mean I get what you are saying but the crowding happened with Immersion because it was like 4 neighborhoods. This would be one very small neighborhood that already can't fill it's neighborhood school. But fine then make Drew into the same model as ATS as a neighborhood school and permit transfers like they.already do since the school is under enrolled).

All I am saying is that if ATS is truly a model of instruction that can help close the achievement class let's move it to a school that has suffered one of the worst achievement gaps in the county's history (although unfortunately right now it's overall scores are disappointing)

I mean for overall reading only 52% of kids passed. When accounting for race it's only 74% of white kids, 46% of black and hispanic kids. And those are the best results. APS should be ashamed of outcomes at Drew (not to mention Randolph and Barcroft) and if there is this magic way to fix it we should implement it. [/quote]

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