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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I don’t know how fair that is, but 6-7 kids total from what, 20 elementary schools? So that’s six out of maybe 2500? It could very well be the case that they are chosen out of “need” rather than favoritism based on the numbers.

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