Creative Minds - Unified Lottery?

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Anonymous wrote:Or maybe, they want to take time and evaluate how it's working before leaping in blind.

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Or maybe, that's yu ying's cover story so it will have an out after a year or two by saying "we have carefullly assessed .... After full consideration ..... Commitment to our families and to our Mission .... Blah blah blah .......... We have decided to maintain our current lottery process that we feel is working well to support our unique Mission."

And then they'll get to keep their NON-TRANSPARENT process of loading up the waitlist with affluent white parents, parents with a Chinese daughter, and the 1-2 families in DC each year who already know/speak some Mandarin at home.

I really don't want to go down this road yet again, but what evidence do you have that the waitlist is non-transparent? I stood in line last year and I know who was there with me. The waitlist went exactly as expected, and the line-standers were not even close to all affluent white parents. I'm sure somebody took some camera phone pictures so they could see exactly who was there. I get that some people don't like the line-standing practice, but it is hardly non-transparent.

It is transparent, or obvious I guess, to see who is standing in line with you, that is true. You know what number you got.

What you don't know is who is online, and what numbers they get. You don't see the mixture of the online applicants synchronized with the on-the-street applicants, and how their numbers shake out.

You also don't see clearly who is plucked from the back of the line on the day you were there and given a seat ahead of you. Maybe they have a sibling, or, like my colleague, maybe they don't.

Do you hear black helicopters hovering over your house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I stood in line last year and I know who was there with me. The waitlist went exactly as expected, and the line-standers were not even close to all affluent white parents. I'm sure somebody took some camera phone pictures so they could see exactly who was there. I get that some people don't like the line-standing practice, but it is hardly non-transparent.

That's because all the non "affluent white people" were paid linestanders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or maybe, they want to take time and evaluate how it's working before leaping in blind.

+1

Or maybe, that's yu ying's cover story so it will have an out after a year or two by saying "we have carefullly assessed .... After full consideration ..... Commitment to our families and to our Mission .... Blah blah blah .......... We have decided to maintain our current lottery process that we feel is working well to support our unique Mission."

And then they'll get to keep their NON-TRANSPARENT process of loading up the waitlist with affluent white parents, parents with a Chinese daughter, and the 1-2 families in DC each year who already know/speak some Mandarin at home.

That's the great thing about telling the truth - it's really easy to repeat, because you don't to try to remember what you said. Just say what you did. Sound policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or maybe, they want to take time and evaluate how it's working before leaping in blind.

+1

Or maybe, that's yu ying's cover story so it will have an out after a year or two by saying "we have carefullly assessed .... After full consideration ..... Commitment to our families and to our Mission .... Blah blah blah .......... We have decided to maintain our current lottery process that we feel is working well to support our unique Mission."

And then they'll get to keep their NON-TRANSPARENT process of loading up the waitlist with affluent white parents, parents with a Chinese daughter, and the 1-2 families in DC each year who already know/speak some Mandarin at home.

That's the great thing about telling the truth - it's really easy to repeat, because you don't to try to remember what you said. Just say what you did. Sound policy.

^ "...don't HAVE to try to remember..."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: I stood in line last year and I know who was there with me. The waitlist went exactly as expected, and the line-standers were not even close to all affluent white parents. I'm sure somebody took some camera phone pictures so they could see exactly who was there. I get that some people don't like the line-standing practice, but it is hardly non-transparent.

That's because all the non "affluent white people" were paid linestanders.

Well, then the people that paid them got screwed, because I see those "paid linestanders" at the PTA meetings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I stood in line last year and I know who was there with me. The waitlist went exactly as expected, and the line-standers were not even close to all affluent white parents. I'm sure somebody took some camera phone pictures so they could see exactly who was there. I get that some people don't like the line-standing practice, but it is hardly non-transparent.

That's because all the non "affluent white people" were paid linestanders.

Well, then the people that paid them got screwed, because I see those "paid linestanders" at the PTA meetings.

Dammit, I stood in the line but I didn't get paid! What's up with that?! We got a spot, and we're super grateful, but how much did those other line-standers who I see dropping their kids off daily get paid? Not fair!

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CM's web page disturbs me. All of the children featured are adorable. However, in a city where 70+% of the students are African American they could find not one brown skinned black child to feature? Not one? What message are they trying to send?

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These photos have been up since before the school opened for students. I have always assumed they are stock photos.

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They couldn't find a stock photo with even one black child who would not have passed the paper bag test back in the day? That is even worse.

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There page has a gorgeous black girl and an Asian boy

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Look up "paper bag test"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They couldn't find a stock photo with even one black child who would not have passed the paper bag test back in the day? That is even worse.

What worries me is that you judge a school based on the website that they probably designed when it was 3 people sitting around in a living room vs the actual statistics that show it is the 2nd most racially diverse school in DC.

But sure, judge things on what they look like, not what they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look up "paper bag test"

So the little girl isn't black enough for you? Good to know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look up "paper bag test"

So the little girl isn't black enough for you? Good to know.

You are missing the point, totally. The photos can easily be changed. There is no excuse.