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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frozen out? What are you teaching your kids. Say hello make friends. Where a kid comes from doesn’t matter... oh wait does it? [/quote]

I think PP was just pointing out that there are fewer ATS kids at Jefferson and Gunston than the other schools mentioned. Jefferson and Gunston are probably harder to "break into" socially, because so many of the kids DO attend neighborhood elementaries (Henry/Long Branch or Oakridge/Abingdon, plus the Immersion kids at Gunston stick to themselves), so friend groups are already established from ES. It has nothing to do with where a kids lives or where they come from, it's simply who they already know. I bet the kids coming into those schools from option schools are eventually welcomed into a group by a neighbor or kid they know from sports. As a parent of an option school kid, we go out of our way to have child play sports and do camps with either neighborhood kids or friend groups outside of school so that the kid is better accustomed to breaking into new groups/making new friends. It's a life skill. [/quote]

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