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Not PP here.  And I don’t dispute that there are some true believers/pedagogical families out there.  But, as has been pointed out, that’s not who you have populating ATS.  As evidenced by the HB numbers.  It’s these people who feel like winning a lottery in APS actually gets them something “better” educationally for their child.  They somehow believe that by “winning” they are avoiding the parents who can’t manage to fill out APS dumb lottery form—which, by the way, is idiot proof.  Most N Arlington schools are filled with too involved parents, see all the complaints on this forum about the over advocating of N Arlington PTAs.    So it’s nonsense in my view to offer these programs which arent actually serving particular students needs but rather filling irrational parents sense of superiority.  [/quote]

65% of ATS students aren’t white, 35% are economically disadvantaged and 38% are English learners. Compare these numbers to N Arlington schools. Nottingham for example is 73% White, 5% economically disadvantaged and 6% English learners. Tuckahoe, Cardinal, Jamestown, Taylor and Discovery all have similar numbers. ATS doesn’t have the affluent, over involved North Arlington parents you are thinking of. [/quote]

PP here. Also, i was specifically responding to PP’s assertion that ATS doesn’t have a specific pedagogy. Whether the parents are true believers or not is irrelevant. It has a pedagogy which is direct instruction. That pedagogy is evidence based and makes a huge difference to learning outcomes.[/quote]

Parents aren’t drawn to pedagogy. I doubt many are even aware of anything about ATS when they apply.

The biggest advantage of options is rock steady enrollment. [b]There is zero chance of over crowding and being crazy overcrowded like McKinely was[/b]. They control the entering Kinder class unlike ours where we needed to form a new class but had no rooms.

It’s also great because you have involved parents who took initiative for the lottery, and had the means to handle transportation demands of a non neighborhood school. Sure maybe it’s a “simple form” but it has a strict timeline (you can’t just apply right now for next years lottery, you have to wait till it opens), you get results and must respond in two weeks, etc.  it would be easy for a working family to miss one of those deadlines, and how to even know what an option school is? I never heard of such a thing until my kid was in 1st and we met a soccer player from ATS (this was before I found DCUM of course). [/quote]

What!? Key and Claremont have been two of the most overcrowded schools over the years.  The ATS principal somehow persuaded central office that they shouldn't be even when the rest of the system was.[/quote]

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