Bethune joining MSDC Lottery, still no LAMB

[Anonymous]

I was going through the Common Lottery Board minutes, and it looks like Bethune is coming on board.... they were the last "traditional" school hold out other than LAMB. Just another reason to feel like LAMB likes being a blackbox of non-information:

http://www.myschooldc.org/sites/default/files/dc/sites/myschooldc/CLB%20Meeting%20Minutes%2010.25.18_DRAFT.pdf

[Anonymous]

So weird that LAMB is the sole holdout. Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So weird that LAMB is the sole holdout. Why?

Because they can list stack without oversight, not let in any children above K, and more.

[Anonymous]

So that they can continue to do whatever they want with as little oversight as possible.

[Anonymous]

The real answer is because they want to try to acquire native speaker families to support their immersion model and they know if they are in the common lottery every white gentrifier will mindlessly click the button to add them to their list.

[Anonymous]

Because it works for them. Because they aren’t required to. Because they dont want to pay the fee required to be in the lottery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So weird that LAMB is the sole holdout. Why?

Because they can list stack without oversight, not let in any children above K, and more.

This isn’t the excuse- their lottery is still audited every year. And I don’t know what being the part of the common lottery has to do with accepting students- they do not go hand in hand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because it works for them. Because they aren’t required to. Because they dont want to pay the fee required to be in the lottery.

I didn’t realize there is a fee to join.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it works for them. Because they aren’t required to. Because they dont want to pay the fee required to be in the lottery.

I didn’t realize there is a fee to join.

Schools pay a 'tax' to support it based on how many students they have in their school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So weird that LAMB is the sole holdout. Why?

Because they can list stack without oversight, not let in any children above K, and more.

This isn’t the excuse- their lottery is still audited every year. And I don’t know what being the part of the common lottery has to do with accepting students- they do not go hand in hand.

The exact order in which they call from the WL is not audited and there are still many ways around it. That is what LAMB has always been accused of doing. I know myself when my Spanish speaking friend got called off the WL before me 5 years ago despite being 100+ higher than my number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So weird that LAMB is the sole holdout. Why?

Because they can list stack without oversight, not let in any children above K, and more.

This isn’t the excuse- their lottery is still audited every year. And I don’t know what being the part of the common lottery has to do with accepting students- they do not go hand in hand.

The exact order in which they call from the WL is not audited and there are still many ways around it. That is what LAMB has always been accused of doing. I know myself when my Spanish speaking friend got called off the WL before me 5 years ago despite being 100+ higher than my number.

Ah, I remember this conspiracy theorist poster. Welcome back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So weird that LAMB is the sole holdout. Why?

Because they can list stack without oversight, not let in any children above K, and more.

This isn’t the excuse- their lottery is still audited every year. And I don’t know what being the part of the common lottery has to do with accepting students- they do not go hand in hand.

The exact order in which they call from the WL is not audited and there are still many ways around it. That is what LAMB has always been accused of doing. I know myself when my Spanish speaking friend got called off the WL before me 5 years ago despite being 100+ higher than my number.

Ah, I remember this conspiracy theorist poster. Welcome back.

I’m not a repeat poster. I’m sure it has happened to many people but I can’t tell you my story is not a conspiracy. It happened.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why people care about this. It means that people can put in for 13 schools, not just 12. I was thrilled to have this an extra option.

People honestly think that an MSDC audit is better than the audit already done on LAMB's lottery? That's putting a lot of faith in a system that, by other accounts, has its own issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The real answer is because they want to try to acquire native speaker families to support their immersion model and they know if they are in the common lottery every white gentrifier will mindlessly click the button to add them to their list.

I know this is the reason stated. Does anyone have any data on this to suggest if it still holds true?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people care about this. It means that people can put in for 13 schools, not just 12. I was thrilled to have this an extra option.

People honestly think that an MSDC audit is better than the audit already done on LAMB's lottery? That's putting a lot of faith in a system that, by other accounts, has its own issues.

I suppose just because people think there's cheating involved, but?

I also think it's been great for some who do very poorly in the main lottery. Not that that should be determinate but might make some folks less critical on here, you'd think.