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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whenever I see these posts it makes me annoyed my kids don’t get in to ATS. I want them to go to school with other kids who have parents that want to be there. Haha oh well! We are living the dream at our neighborhood school toying with going private weekly. [/quote]

The ATS model can be replicated. The thing is [b]parents don’t want it to be replicated.[/b] They don’t want a school where there are high academic and behavioral expectations (there is very little bullying at ATS by the way and when it happens it is nipped in the bud). They don’t want a school that gives homework. That’s the problem. Despite all the parents who want more schools like ATS, the loudest voices are like the ones you see here on DCUM who hate on ATS every chance they get. [/quote]

It’s a particular group of parents—a lot of first gen/immigrant families who highly value education, homework, testing that want the things you describe at ATS.  The issue is that those same values do not translate at, for example, Taylor, Jamestown, Nottingham, Cardinal.

I don’t want my kid to have repetitive worksheet homework in elementary school.  They don’t add any value to my child’s educational experience and there is good reason evidence that elementary school homework isn’t helpful to kids like mind.  I acknowledge that it may also be true homework is helpful to a different population.

So, you don’t have a swell of support for the ATS vision, because the things you find useful at ATS don’t translate across all schools in Arlington.     [/quote]

So your kids don’t go to ATS yet you somehow assume that ATS is giving them repetitive worksheets? This is the problem. Parents who don’t have kids in ATS but make assumptions of what it’s like. My kids love ATS. It’s not a boring cold school. The teachers are excellent and know how to make he material interesting. They learn but have fun at the same time. [/quote]

The very definition of home work is to repeat what is leaned ar home.  See prior up thread.   Tons of research showing that, for kids like mine, elementary home work is a waste of time.  It’s ok that different tools works for different kids.

And to be clear, look at the breakdown of ATS kids.  You aren’t drawing at all from the neighborhoods I am referencing.   Again, this is not to say that ATS is bad or a worse education. It’s an explanation for why ATS isn’t county wide.  We don’t want it.  And you don’t want what my ES offers.

The calculation is vastly different in poorer South Arlington ES.  All can be true. [/quote]

A few questions because your post doesn’t make much sense and sounds really elitist.

1. What do you mean by “kids like mine” when you say they don’t need repetitive homework? 
2. What don’t people want that your ES has?

Also, repetition is actually needed to learn. It’s a fact. [/quote]

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