Reply to Post-ATS Education - Middle and High School

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "Post-ATS Education - Middle and High School"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not a question of picking apart any one program, but rather looking at what works and implementing it system-wide, to the extent possible. If Montessori is so amazing, then why is it so limited? If ATS has an ideal learning environment, why is it only at one school?

They just eliminated the year-round program at Carlin Springs because of cost, why don’t they look at other programs for lessons learned and stop all of this inter-county transfer nonsense.

[/quote]

The modified calendar was at Barcroft.

But I otherwise generally agree with your sentiment.  The problem with IB, however, is the expense.  If APS wants to commit to making every HS an IB school, then that's one thing.  But as long as a small %age of students opt to take the program (full-time), that's a program that makes more fiscal sense to retain at one location.  It requires specially trained teachers, actual in-person teachers for languages, and a yearly fee to the IB organization of about $10K.

The main take-away from ATS that's needed at every school is high expectations and some degree of structure.  All elementary schools should also be using the same curriculum and instructional methods.  APS says they are; but that's not completely accurate.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics