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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of these differences only work with home support.

Summer reading...home support.

The instrument...home support.

The dress code...home support.

The homework...home support.  Let's be real any homework before about 3rd or 4th grade is a group project with you and your kid.

People discounting what a difference it makes to have a student body filled 100 percent with parents who were motivated and interested enough to get the kids there are just naive.[/quote]

Sure.  A lot  but not all of our elementary schools have some of these things. Summer reading,  homework, band take  some level of parent buy in. I also think more but not all parents would ask their kids do these things if it was expected of them.

And why not weekly progress reports sent home to parents? That doesn’t require parent participation but more parents would know how their kid was doing.  It opens the door to regular communication.[/quote]

Teachers are not going to have time for this because they deal with a higher load of discipline and SN kids than ATS (since SN kids who struggle leave ATS for a school without homework)[/quote]

There are a TON of SN kids at ATS, it was in this thread, too, around 12%.  Do you think ATS has less issues than other lottery schools?  Less behavioral struggles than neighborhood schools like, say, Jamestown, Tuckahoe, or Nottingham?   I don't think so.  Probably has more.  There are a lot of ELL students who are new to the US or the parents are brand new to the US, there is a large SN population, and there is a very large poor population.   Jamestown, Tuckahoe, Nottingham, etc. so not deal with these challenges, especially not in large numbers.   [/quote]

Would love to compare attendance rates between all the schools. And P-T conference attendance. And rates of behavioral incidents.[/quote]

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