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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, they did the lottery live on MS Teams.  I watched the whole thing.  Yes, it only showed the numbers of the kids who won, not the names, but there will be a clear paper trail, it would be simple to audit after the fact.  The type of shenanigans you are implying would require a high level of fraud, with many people “in on it.”  I know it is disappointing when your kid doesn’t get in, but the lottery is not rigged.[/quote]

I have participated in the lottery and yeah there is some manual intervention. It happened 2 years ago and they had tried to hide the fact they had 2 copies of lists in the system - one created by the system from parents who registered and then one they created manually in the system.  it became apparent and people started commenting. I bet someone could dig up a thread here. It probably had to do with needing to retain some seats that they could assign for whatever reason - maybe administrative transfer? [/quote]

There is no way to administrative transfer to hb.  It is not an option on the website so only some direct back door deal is possible to get in.

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Administrative transfers are always case by case, not public, usually because of some specific problem a child is having. Often these kids are in a bad place and the circumstances are private.

This is the case for all admin transfer to any school in APS. [b]I highly doubt they let a lot of kids into HB as admin transfers because if they did, you'd see it in the numbers.[/b] 
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You do see it in the numbers. Lottery chooses 75 rising sixth graders. Final middle school class sizes end up being around 81-82. That is 6-7 kids who get in each year outside of the lottery.  I can't imagine there are that many kids each year who have issues which cannot be dealt with by a neighborhood school.  Somehow, these extra 6-7 kids are being admitted each year through a process outside of the lottery....  [/quote]

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