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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you feel your principal should hear your suggestions? Are you an educational consultant? Do you have a college degree in this field? 
This type of feedback is out of turn. You have no idea what constraints the principal has. [/quote]

DP. ATS has erased the achievement gap according to previous posts. Why shouldn't parents go to principals and ask would ATS's practices work here?

Veteran teachers at our school don't know anything about ATS. I asked last year after reading about it. They said they don't know much about it. [/quote]

You think the principal is just sitting around twiddling their thumbs and waiting on a random parent to ask these questions? They’re already working hard, trying to get the best outcomes they can. They will never be ATS because
-they have some population of parents that can’t get their kids to school reliably. Not a factor at ATS
-they have some population of parents who do not care when their kid is disciplined. In fact they push back. Parents at ATS, just by participating in a lottery to get in, are the types who would take behavior seriously. 
-they have parents who would never be on board with homework or a dress code (both, IMO, are part of the secret sauce). And forget summer homework 
-they have lots of students with leaning disabilities, which affects test scores and how the school appears to be performing (because we all know kids with a lot of special need transfer from ATS when that becomes apparent and it’s not their strong suit)

So insulting to go to a principal and suggest they just try to be like ATS [/quote

I guess I don’t understand why it matters if some parents can’t reliably get their kids to school and won’t supervise homework.  Some of those kids would benefit from the structure that their parents can’t or won’t provide.  Raise the expectations and standards at the schools and let the chips fall where they may.[/quote]

Really? You don't understand why kids who don't have high attendance and supportive help at home do better? It's really not even close. You can't raise the standards at school (whatever that means) if the parents aren't on board. Look at how these boards freak out over homework in elementary school and going to Back To School nights. [/quote]

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