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[quote=Anonymous]The lottery is not rigged and it's very transparent. Now there are interesting ramifications of not considering demographics that you flag. For example, my child is in K at a school on the Hill where the racial makeup of the school has moved from majority black to majority white. This reflects the neighborhood. When we were in prek3 and prek4, the % of white kids skyrocketed from previous years (much more heavily white than the neighborhood). One could make the argument that race or income or other family demos should be considered so ECE has a balanced class reflective of the neighborhood. But prek3 and prek4 aren't a right to attend in boundary and aren't mandated. The universal prek program in DC was set up to not include these demos and I'm not an education researcher so can't speak to benefits or drawbacks. We went to an open house at SWS and were asking why the school is so white and what they were going to do about that...and were honestly told that it's hard because the rules of the lottery don't take into account race. So they are focusing on marketing so all students know about SWS and there's an applicant pool reflective of the city. The schools themselves can't do anything to change the lottery results even if they want to...and some of why they might want to might be for very good reasons.

All this to say, I would take the tin foil hat off. There's some very interesting and important discussions to be had about the lottery, does it lead to equitable outcomes and how to improve school choice and options in DC...but I don't think those are the discussions you're interested in having. [/quote]

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