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[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 guaranteed admission for neighborhood kids. Then the 25 kids at the ATS hub stop at Drew can come back to their neighborhood school..[/quote]

All the fighting didn't address the underlying structural problem, which is that Green Valley is primarily a neighborhood full of renters, and renters turn over. Kids that move in and out of  school from year to year (and during a year) cannot make progress the way that kids who attend the same school and are known to the teachers and the principal and have records of their strengths and weaknesses can be helped.

ATS kids can be placed with the teachers that can best meet their individual needs, and classes can be formed with a balanced mix of kids, or divided in ways that make sense if there are enough to make big groups. In fact, you can do that in most north Arlington schools because the overall mix of kids doesn't change from year to year and the principals have tons of testing data to work with. They can't do that at Drew or many other south Arlington schools because they don't know 30 percent of the kids who show up in September--they weren't there in June. They don't know if they're putting four disruptive kids in the same room, or all the kids who need the most reading help in the same class, or if a kid is a grade behind his age when he shows up to enroll the day before school starts and they should put him in the room of kids that are more remedial instead of the room of kids that are more advanced. [/quote]

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