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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is inevitable that DC will have to adopt a random lottery placement system for public schools, like in San Francisco.  Neighborhood-based schools are inherently exclusionary.  Only  with a true DC-wide lottery (with diversity adjustments) will DC achieve equity.[/quote]

"have to"? how so?  NOBODY who is happy with their IB school wants that destroyed. And that's not just high SES white parents.  [/quote]

Per the DME in 2017 (cited in the report this thread is about) [b]only 27% of students even go to their IB school, [/b] and I doubt 100% of them are happy. [/quote]

But the report notes that even if students aren't attending their IB DCPS, "in practice, students attend schools that are on average a 10- to 16-minute drive from home, depending on their grade." [/quote]

A 10 minute drive is pretty far, and I don't want to drive, and we don't need more traffic on the streets.  I have no issue with methods like set-asides to increase diversity, but destroying functioning neighborhood schools would be shameful.  [/quote]

Very few neighborhood schools are functional. Why should we preserve an entire dysfunctional system to just save a few unicorns?[/quote]

I think the number of "functional" schools, however defined, is growing.  Schools like Powell, West, etc. are attracting more IB families.  Yes, some of them will peel off before middle school, but many will stay.  Why dismantle neighborhood schools when they finally have some momentum?[/quote]

If a few mor at-risk kids would destroy your school, is it really so functional?[/quote]

I think most people are fine with a set-aside to include more at risk kids.  Getting rid of IB rights obviously is what would destroy a school.  [/quote]

I don't like what Betsy Devos is doing with for-profit colleges, but I agree with her emphasis on discipline and values in struggling schools and to improve at-risk kids' performance.  DC needs to do more of that! [/quote]

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