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Disagree. I am the most vocal pro-reform proponent on this board (apart from the nutjobs) and I reject the notion of a lottery. I believe there are genuinely a group of 50-100 students every year who wouldn't make sense at any high school other than TJ, and as we continue to reform the new admissions process, we need to make sure we are adding enough layers to the process to identify those kids.
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It would be possible to have a hybrid system.  Any kid who wishes to do so could fill out a comprehensive application, and then the TJ teachers could select among those kids the no more than 100 kids who absolutely need TJ.  The rest of the spots could be filled by a lottery that includes the kids rejected in the first process and anyone else who wants to enter.  I would increase the requirements to a GPA of 3.8 and all Honors to enter the lottery.  [/quote]

I could get behind a proposal like this one if and only if there was no differentiation between the top 100 and the lottery kids in terms of the way they were notified. FOIA might make this impossible, but it should never go public which students were selected as the top group and which were selected by the lottery - that would create more problems than it would solve.[/quote]

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