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And while it may be a great program, it is t anywhere near the largest school but consumes the most number of buses (even of the all the option schools). It needs to go in this current environment. Or at a minimum be debated. This whole thing APS is doing is a farce.  They claim they are looking at everything yet won’t take a hard look at the value of the option programs. Bunch of wimps. [/quote]

Yeah! If you're a poor kid sucking up vital APS resources, you only deserve to go to a school that you've been redlined to and you can walk there with all of your poor neighbors, even if that means your mom loses a half hour of wages to escort you there!!!!! MAGA

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If the kids who were transferring there from overcrowded schools were all ED, I might feel differently, but the families I know from South Arlington who transferred weren't -- they didn't like their neighborhood schools but weren't willing to pay to move because that would have but into their vacation budgets.

Does APS collect long-term data on ATS graduates? I don't care what someone's elementary SOLs are. I want to know if they outperformed other members of their demographic by the end of high school (because the ones I know didn't).[/quote]

Do you have many ED families in your social circle? Perhaps that's why you know more non disadvantaged families? All the kids who qualify for VPI are ED. I suspect at least some of them are from South Arlington, or parts of North Arlington that need a bus to get to ATS.

I would be interested to see that long-term data, too, but APS does not have any such data. But anecdotally, I know two former ATS students who absolutely did outperform their similarly disadvantaged neighborhood cohorts. But whether that was due to the school itself, or due to the fact that their parents were the type who pushed them into ATS and ultimately college, I could not say. [/quote]

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