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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love this line: 
"Because My School DC’s software places students, the system levels the playing field for families who lack political connections or the time and resources to stand in lines, lobby school principals and complete scores of applications."

The implication being that families who don't lack political connections don't have to deal with this nonsense. [/quote]

Not sure I read it the same way.

Pre-Common lottery, when every single school ran its own enrollment process and/or lottery, if you knew (or were) a politically connected person or the principal or registrar at a school, you could enroll, regardless of being IB or OOB or what your number was.

If you weren’t connected and you had time, you would sleep out to submit your apps for school-level lottery because you got a preference based on when you turned your app in. There was a one block line of tents outside Oyster one year.

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+1 - the real nonsense was the way it used to be. No PK, no alternative to boundary schools. We have those now and entrance is determined by lottery. That they’ve done a good job with it is one of the few bright spots in city gov.[/quote]

Agreed.  It's not a coincidence they had to set up a new office to run it- no way it could have been run as well as it has been by the existing agencies and their sclerotic hierarchies.[/quote]

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