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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our neighbors left ATS because they said it was not a good school for their kid who had special needs.

Neighborhood schools ( not all, but many) do a better job with that. [/quote]

Right.  Because ATS is a choice school.

Because it's a self selecting group, that's about 75% of the success right there.  [/quote]

More than 75% I think. Probably 90%.  There are some things that can be replicated, but you aren’t going to be able to fix the main ingredient for ATS’s success in narrowing the achievement gap. [/quote]

If self-selection is the achievement gap fixer, why don't the other choice programs have the same effect? [/quote]

Yes, and not just other choice programs.  The highly educated wealthy parents self selected, too, by buying into the elementary schools in northernmost Arlington.

Yet, I believe all those schools do have an achievement gap for their very few kids who do not fall into the well resourced parent category.  There are also gaps for SN kids when I last checked, and ethnic ones as well.  
They should have zero problems closing their gaps for those few students, why don't they or can't they?   [/quote]

easy, those kids are not their priority[/quote]

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