Response to Amber's Blog: ASTI'S Size Increase?

I took this quote from Amber Chan’s Blog.

From reading this quote, i am a bit scared that the AUSD would increase ASTI’s size to four hundred students because teachers would drive less attention to students. Also it is better to keep a small size for ASTI because to me ASTI is a family and almost everyone would know each other and give each other support. I am also worrying that if there is over four hundred students in ASTI with seventh and eighth grader, it may not be an early college high school anymore. To tell the truth, the first time i visited ASTI i thought it was only a good school because of the early college high school and i believe probably many of the new applicants would feel that way too.

As an alternative, l kind of feel that it would be excited for seventh and eighth graders to join ASTI because freshmens wouldn’t be the smallest In the ASTI campus anymore. Also upper class mens in the school can help or tutor seventh and eighth graders to help them to get ready and build reliance for high school. As the years go by, seventh and eighth graders would turned to high school students and continue the prides of helping seventh and eighth graders. Also it may be a good thing that we are recieving middle school students because i had heard that other Alameda middle schools would shut down and that means that middle school students in Alameda may loose their education and if ASTI could help, it would mean alot to the middle school students.

Today, we had a PTSA meeting at school, and we came to the topic of the possible size increase for ASTI.Mr. Fong talked about how AUSD was planning to increase ASTI's size to 400 students, but the grades levels would be from seventh grade to twelfth grade.  The students would not be at the portable campus only, but supposedly, we would have the seventh and eight graders at a different campus, and the ninth through twelfth graders at the ASTI and COA campus.