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[quote=Anonymous]Y'all are right about the math, but some people are right that they would, in fact, have had a better shot under the old system.  That's because under the old system, some people benefitted not from luck but from an unusual willingness to wait.

Under the old system, many people would play the lottery but never enroll, because long before their number came up at any school they would lose patience and go private or move to an acceptable IB school (whether or not in the District).  The new design of the lottery matches people earlier, thus enrolling more such people before they lose patience.  This means worse results for the people with bad numbers who (like the parent on this thread) were genuinely willing to wait out the back-to-school churn.

I think that moderately impatient families who have some alternatives are probably good for the schools, overall, and the new system is definitely better for those people, so it is probably better for the District -- but it is, in fact, a worse system for the patient family with a bad number.[/quote]

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