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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is inevitable that DC will have to adopt a random lottery placement system for public schools, like in San Francisco.  Neighborhood-based schools are inherently exclusionary.  Only  with a true DC-wide lottery (with diversity adjustments) will DC achieve equity.[/quote]

"have to"? how so?  NOBODY who is happy with their IB school wants that destroyed. And that's not just high SES white parents.  [/quote]

Per the DME in 2017 (cited in the report this thread is about) [b]only 27% of students even go to their IB school, [/b] and I doubt 100% of them are happy. [/quote]

But the report notes that even if students aren't attending their IB DCPS, "in practice, students attend schools that are on average a 10- to 16-minute drive from home, depending on their grade." [/quote]

A 10 minute drive is pretty far, and I don't want to drive, and we don't need more traffic on the streets.  I have no issue with methods like set-asides to increase diversity, but destroying functioning neighborhood schools would be shameful.  [/quote]

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