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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Equity goals can’t inconvenience people. It’s that simple. [/quote]

It would crater the tax base and the schools would suffer for your made uo equity goal.[/quote]

Pfft. Half the kids in this city already participate in a school lottery. There's nothing magical about the other half. [/quote]

Except that other half has chosen not to participate.

You wanted choice, you got choice.  Now you want to deny everyone else choice by forcing your choice on them.  Lovely.[/quote]

The city imposes a de facto wealth test on those who want to go to school in Ward 3. That's what this would address. If you think we should be auctioning off seats in some schools to the highest bidders, you should just say so. [/quote]

The entire landscape is entirely unfair, but your solution would not bring about the intended result because folks won’t play along. And so you’ll have imposed a logistical nightmare on the city with nothing to show for it.  San Fran tried it and it was a disaster.  [/quote]

+1.  Those with options will flee the city to the burbs.  People just don’t get it.  
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Is this like how if we raise taxes on the rich by even a dollar, they'll all move away?[/quote]

The rich can pay taxes but their lives don't really change, they just find it annoying.

But people who have options and want the best for their kids will not compromise on their kids futures and send them to failing schools. They just won't do it.[/quote]

No, because there little evidence that taxation cause large scale “moving” by the rich, while there is plenty of evidence that people of means (including mere middle class folks) will move (or exit public schools) to avoid intolerable school situations.[/quote]

So move. Your house will sell immediately, and lots of people would be glad to have Ethan's or Lily's spot at school. The DC government has more money than it knows what to do with, and it can raise taxes forever and all the good Democrats here will never ever complain, so nobody cares if you take your tax dollars to Virginia. [/quote]

New poster.  So naive.  Some people will tolerate higher taxes but no one is going to tolerate poor schools for their kids if they have options even democrats.

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Your reading comprehension skills are poor. Also, do the math. There aren't very many kids in Ward 3. Only a small fraction of them would have such bad lottery numbers that they'd end up in a school they consider intolerable. Some of them will suck it up, some of them will switch to private and some of them will move. But their numbers are too small to matter. No one cares if 12 kids in Spring Valley move to McLean. [/quote]

Honestly, if we did all lotto for middle and high school, then Deal and Wilson would still be as popular as Latin or Basis. You just wouldn't get a guaranteed spot. Maybe more Ward 3 families move a mile across Western Ave, but hard to see this causing a real drop in real estate or income tax revenue. It might even make the chances of getting into a "good" school better EOTP and help retain more of those families. [/quote]

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