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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dear OP: before you just shotgun lottery applications, please at least try to learn a little about the pedagogy of the options. This actually matters. For example, you can get to ATS and get homework when you don’t believe in it for your kid (has happened). Or in immersion you may have to supplement over the summer if Spanish isn’t spoken at home (has happened). There are people who pray to God and sacrifice limbs to get into schools and then leave after a few years because they shockingly learned there was a pedagogy that didn’t fit their kid. [/quote]

I understand how Montessori and Claremont/Key are different, but what about ATS and Campbell?

Like, ATS gives homework… That’s the difference? Learning that they still rely on Dreambox/Lexia is kind of shocking.[/quote]

They also have to tuck in their shirts, or at least used to. There's really no reason for ATS to exist in it's current form, they've hinted at changing it to something like IB or eliminating it entirely. So far no one has been brave enough to follow through.

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They stopped tucking in shirts a while ago. Sounds like there’s really not much of a difference at all. [/quote]
My current seventh grader had to tuck in his shirt as of fifth grade. They also had homework which other AP elementary schools don’t do as a regular practice(or at least they are not supposed to) there is a weekly assembly and every class does some sort of performance at some point. [/quote]

Well, they don’t tuck in shirts now. Yes, they have a sliver of homework. Could be more IMO, but better than nothing.

Do we really think a weekly assembly sets it apart that much?

Much bigger question: do ATS graduates out-perform their non-ATS peers in middle and high school?[/quote]

ATS SN, ESL and low-income outperform those categories at all neighborhood schools. There's a person who makes the above point all the time and they are not an ATS family. It also doubles literacy times in the early years which you can't know unless you had a kid at both neighborhood school and ATS for K and 1.

OP: It's an actual crap shoot. Your chances of getting into ATS are between 0-4% b/c there's sib preference. Some years, sibs fill all classes. The year my kid got in, there were 14 non sib seats. If imersion is your thing, ppl love key.[/quote]

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