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Anonymous wrote:The requirement is that of your child PLAYS AN INSTRUMENT in marching band, they must take a band class which provides almost daily practice of their band music. That’s the requirement. There aren’t students at the home schools in marching band who are not in a band class. Period. There is a band class at HB. There is no band class of any kind at Arlington Tech. So you can’t go there and be in band. That’s the decision and you know it going in. It’s up to you and your kid to decide if the trade off is worth it for them.

You're right about knowing and making the decision going in. But we disagree on what you describe as pre-requisites for band and marching band, unless you can provide the written APS policy.

forgot to add: because you DO NOT HAVE TO PLAY A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT to be in colorguard which is considered part of marching band.

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Anonymous wrote:Y'all need to talking up ArlTech. It's horrible trade school for the poors. Stay away!

I'm a little disappointed that some people joined the lottery just to do it, with no care, regard or interest in the program.

This program works for particular kids and the spaces should be for them. For goodness sake, if you want AP, don't do AT.

Can you please help explain what types of kids that it works well for? I would love your thoughts.

"The poors" was, indeed sarcasm. I would like people to stop talking about it being a great school b/c my child wants to go and I fear that by the time they can enter the lottery, they'll get a really high number. One poster, or more than one, clearly did no homework before entering the lottery. I assume that they think since it is selective, it's "better" somehow.

No, it's not better. It's different and was designed for particular types of students. For example, some kids do really well in project based courses and AT is oriented in that way. ALSo, some kids need a tactile, direct connection between learning and real life; AT provides that. Most ARL kids will thrive in WL, W, and YT; mine won't. It's AT or private and I really want to retire.

It really is surprising to me that people post here that their kids got a spot and they clearly know nothing about it. Even a short visit to the website answers most questions. I do think it's a great option but my DC refused to consider it because of size.

It's also interesting to see the classist bias against DE classes vs AP.

Anonymous wrote:The requirement is that of your child PLAYS AN INSTRUMENT in marching band, they must take a band class which provides almost daily practice of their band music. That’s the requirement. There aren’t students at the home schools in marching band who are not in a band class. Period. There is a band class at HB. There is no band class of any kind at Arlington Tech. So you can’t go there and be in band. That’s the decision and you know it going in. It’s up to you and your kid to decide if the trade off is worth it for them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The requirement is that of your child PLAYS AN INSTRUMENT in marching band, they must take a band class which provides almost daily practice of their band music. That’s the requirement. There aren’t students at the home schools in marching band who are not in a band class. Period. There is a band class at HB. There is no band class of any kind at Arlington Tech. So you can’t go there and be in band. That’s the decision and you know it going in. It’s up to you and your kid to decide if the trade off is worth it for them.

You're right about knowing and making the decision going in. But we disagree on what you describe as pre-requisites for band and marching band, unless you can provide the written APS policy.

Anonymous wrote:The requirement is that of your child PLAYS AN INSTRUMENT in marching band, they must take a band class which provides almost daily practice of their band music. That’s the requirement. There aren’t students at the home schools in marching band who are not in a band class. Period. There is a band class at HB. There is no band class of any kind at Arlington Tech. So you can’t go there and be in band. That’s the decision and you know it going in. It’s up to you and your kid to decide if the trade off is worth it for them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y'all need to talking up ArlTech. It's horrible trade school for the poors. Stay away!

I'm a little disappointed that some people joined the lottery just to do it, with no care, regard or interest in the program.

This program works for particular kids and the spaces should be for them. For goodness sake, if you want AP, don't do AT.

Can you please help explain what types of kids that it works well for? I would love your thoughts.

"The poors" was, indeed sarcasm. I would like people to stop talking about it being a great school b/c my child wants to go and I fear that by the time they can enter the lottery, they'll get a really high number. One poster, or more than one, clearly did no homework before entering the lottery. I assume that they think since it is selective, it's "better" somehow.

No, it's not better. It's different and was designed for particular types of students. For example, some kids do really well in project based courses and AT is oriented in that way. ALSo, some kids need a tactile, direct connection between learning and real life; AT provides that. Most ARL kids will thrive in WL, W, and YT; mine won't. It's AT or private and I really want to retire.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y'all need to talking up ArlTech. It's horrible trade school for the poors. Stay away!

I'm a little disappointed that some people joined the lottery just to do it, with no care, regard or interest in the program.

This program works for particular kids and the spaces should be for them. For goodness sake, if you want AP, don't do AT.

Can you please help explain what types of kids that it works well for? I would love your thoughts.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re-band. AT kids cannot do homework school band because band is a class at the home school. There is no band class (or any music class) at AT so that is why students can’t do band. It has nothing to do with the afterschool marching component.

AT kids have been repeatedly told they cannot do marching band. You don't have to take band as a class to participate in marching band (which is its own music credit).

This is NOT true. You MUST take the full credit band class and additionally for marching you get another half credit marching in order to do marching band. It is the same at all 3 comprehensive high schools. HB has a band program (just not marching since they have no sport to march for). So theoretically if your child at HB wanted to do marching band at the home school, the HB band director and the home school band director could coordinate the music piece with the student while at their HB band class. That class doesn't exist at Arlington Tech and that's why those students can't do band. It's a compromise your kid has to make to attend.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re-band. AT kids cannot do homework school band because band is a class at the home school. There is no band class (or any music class) at AT so that is why students can’t do band. It has nothing to do with the afterschool marching component.

AT kids have been repeatedly told they cannot do marching band. You don't have to take band as a class to participate in marching band (which is its own music credit).

Anonymous wrote:Re-band. AT kids cannot do homework school band because band is a class at the home school. There is no band class (or any music class) at AT so that is why students can’t do band. It has nothing to do with the afterschool marching component.