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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The social issues for ATS students moving to middle school are well known.  If you decide to send your child to ATS, I would recommend also enrolling your child in some neighbor-based activities like soccer or scouts with the Drew teams/groups rather than ATS to help your child make friends with kids who are likely to go to the same middle school.[/quote]
Is this an ATS thing or all option schools[/quote]

ATS is the only option school that doesn’t have a middle school path.  For other option schools, if you continue to the middle school program, you’ll be with a bunch of kids you know.  But if you leave the option program for middle school, it can also be an issue.  Geography also matters - all of the option schools draw disproportionate from the surrounding area, so if you live in the same middle school zone the option elementary school sits in, your kid likely will know more kids at the middle school from elementary than if the option elementary is across the county from where you live.[/quote]

Hmm.  I'm not so sure.  Campbell does not have a program path to middle school, although a majority of the students there (so far, due to admissions policies) have been from the neighborhood.  Immersion has a middle and high school path; but a good portion don't continue because the middle school (and high school) locations are in far south Arlington.  Finally, Montessori does not have a middle school path either.

In the past, ATS students who also got into HB would have several familiar faces because several ATS students also tended to get into HBW.  Admissions policies to HBW have changed now; so maybe that's less common.[/quote]

Yeah I’m pretty sure that HBW now has a limit over how many students it can take from each elementary school?[/quote]

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