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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know, what you need to keep in mind is that, as a result of school choice (the sheer having a choice, and a lottery at that), your dream school will always be the one that eludes you, the same way that the grass seems always greener on the other side of the fence. If we all spent only just half the energy wasted on open houses and lotteries and discussions about them on investing in our schools we'd all win, especially the kids thrown into turmoil year after year. I speculate that's what the person who reported that their backup worked out very well did. Cheers to you![/quote]

I grow so tired of this completely naive argument about investing in your local underperforming school. It takes significant time (as in years) to turn around a school that is entrenched in apathy at best, corruption at worst. If you're a parent willing to sacrifice even a single year of your young child's education on a questionable school with a track record of underachievement that's your silly choice...at least it ups the lottery prospects for my child at schools with a record of success. The time to "invest" in your local bad school in order to improve it is BEFORE you start having children because turn-around can takes years, not months.[/quote]

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