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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We applied to ATS last year and didn't get in, and I was crushed because I fell in love with the school on the tour, and I thought my anxious son would love all the structure and the rules about being kind to others etc. But we didn't get in so we went to our neighborhood school.

[b]Turns out the sort of things I thought my son would love are a source for stress. He wasn't really ready for the focus on academics in K; he'd rather have more playtime and more time to just be a kid. Assignments or projects that aren't well thought out and fun but are rote practice or memorizing or too taxing for too long are just hard on him. He would love the play-based Kindergarten I had 30 years ago, but modern K is no joke!
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And ATS is, from my understanding, just about the most no nonsense K there is in NOVA. Serious homework assignments and practicing, etc. I'm not knocking it -- it seems amazing and wonderful for many students who are the right fit. I'm just saying, I was crushed when we didn't get in last year, but now that I know what K is like and remember the tours at ATS and the explanations of the work, I am glad we didn't get in. I don't think our son would have flourished there, and I think it would have been really hard on him to try to squeeze him into a box he wasn't really built to fit into.

So ATS lottery losers, take heart!  You may love ATS, or the idea of ATS, but as it turns out your child might not have liked it as much as you thought/hoped/dreamed they would. [/quote]

This is why we didn't apply for my DS.  Our more relaxed neighborhood school that does not give any homework in K was a much better fit.[/quote]

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