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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn't the fairest system be one in which children enrolled in DCPS are randomly assigned to DC schools, so that schools throughout DC are pretty balance racially and economically?  Plus it would create a strong incentive for more educated, affluent parents to advocate for more $$ for the less desirable schools, especially if their children were assigned there.  No more "in bounds" or "out of bounds."  Need to think more along lines of "One City" no longer "my ward" or "my neighborhood."[/quote]

That was tried a few decades ago in every major city west of the Rockies.  It was called "desegregation busing" and it had the effect of emptying the inner cities of the middle class.  It turns out that parents who had their children in good schools didn't want to send them to bad schools in order to satisfy a social agenda.  That's not to say the social agenda (racial balance) was in any way ignoble, but it was an easily predicted colossal failure.  Those who could, fled to the suburbs and created school districts which the poor couldn't afford to buy into.  Problem solved.  Today, these places are known as Montgomery and Fairfax Counties, respectively.  [/quote]

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