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[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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I am very pro-charter, but completely agree that people will flee and chaos will ensue with a citywide lottery.  It would probably even lead to worse outcomes across the board.

That being said, if DCPS can’t even offer one city-wide immersion elementary school, perhaps at Dorthy Height, then I say bring on the chaos because DCPS doesn’t believe in equal opportunity access to their programs.  Seems like a violation of the law to me and they deserve the chaos.  DCPS should just provide equal opportunity to specialized programs and mitigate one of the reasons for a citywide lottery for all seats.  Is that so difficult?[/quote]

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