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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the PP you are asking the question of but... ATS has room for trailers on its campus to take on more students. It won't interfere with the helipad space, either. And I respectfully disagree that ATS has felt the crunch 'like everyone else'. ATS can control the numbers. [b]Other schools might learn in August that they have another 50-100 kids to accomodate. [/b]Tell me where ATS experiences that? Oh right - they don't. They have the luxury of planning where kids go. [/quote]

they *might* but which ones actually did? also ATS has 24 kids in every classroom... do these *other schools* reach the student cap for every classroom? i believe one of the things the Nottingham parents bragged about was they're classroom size was always kept low even when they're *overcrowded* back in the days, some K classes only had 17 or 19 - that's like Title I school level.[/quote]

I am not naming my school because you seem bitter, but we had an additional 60 kids register in the last half of summer. We had to add an additional third-grade class because of how many kids signed up late. It all worked out, but yes, this does happen. Neighborhood can’t max out every class like ATS, but we also don’t get the luxury of calling our school enrollment like ATS.[/quote]

Well, that's just part of the difference between option and neighborhood school. Neighborhood school = proximity, demographic homogeneity, similar pedagogy to other neighborhood school, and neighborhood cohesion. Option schools = traveling further (potentially), demographic diversity, unique pedagogy, and not being as tied to one's neighborhood. They each have their benefits and drawbacks. But they ARE different, and will always be different. That's why they're called "option" vs. "neighborhood" schools. If your kids goes to an option school, maybe their friendships outside of school are more difficult to maintain (play dates with kids who live far away rather than walking home from the bus and everbody going to Larlo's for a snack and a quick game of hoops in the driveway). And if you want your kids to have that experience more than you want them to attend a school with a capped enrollment, that's a choice you make. You just don't enter the lotteries. I personally don't know anybody who wants their kids to go to an option schools unless they have a compelling reason (kid is being bullied in neighborhood school, kid is not successful in current academic setting, kid's zoned school isn't meeting their needs, kid's zoned school is segregated and none of the neighbors send their kids to the neighborhood school anyway).

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