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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well people are right that ATS is not magic. It’s just a self selected student body. That’s true. It’s also why it can’t be replicated in a non lottery program.  So basically it takes kids destined to succeed then claims credit for their scores.  Keep it or don’t. But don’t kid yourself that it has some secret sauce. [/quote]

With that logic, all of the option schools should always be at the top performers.[/quote]

This point has already been addressed in this thread.  If you really care, go read.[/quote]
I’m not sure I buy the “other option schools are more or less neighborhood schools” argument. You’re still working with self-selecting parents who know enough about the system to opt for an alternative to the neighborhood school. Unless you’re saying that kids whose parents try for ATS are inherently more likely to succeed than other kids?[/quote]

Look, the closest comparison for a school with no attendance zone that people had to be “in the know” about was ASFS. Less so as time went on, but that’s more comparable.[/quote]

Huh?  Up until very recently, people who lived in. The Key zone could opt into either school, which everyone in the area knew and lots of people did not because they thought ASFS was a superior school, but because it was more convenient for them or they didn’t want immersion.  It’s draw was nothing like ATS for gunner parents.[/quote]

Maybe, but I’m guessing that some parents were taken in by the word “Science.”[/quote]

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