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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]than your neighborhood school?

This is what the school wide lottery will mean for many families. I don't think it is a realistic expectation but I could be wrong. I assume the DME realizes this and is OK with those families leaving DCPS. Lower performing schools will not get an influx of good students.

We wouldn't do that drive every day. Would anyone?[/quote]

Please try to tone down the exaggeration.  Many families?  Miles?  My understanding of the proposals is the only possibility of this ever happening is with a citywide HS lottery and even in a worst case scenario you are not going to have any significant number of NW students being forced to travel to, say, Eastern.

This type of rhetoric is counterproductive.  Better to emphasize the importance of certainty and the ability to attend the school closest to you.[/quote]

+1 "Driving miles for worse schools " is hysteria bordering on Monty Python-level farce at this point. Very low probability of "city-wide" lotteries every happening, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth has drowned out any of the good ideas in the proposals.[/quote]

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