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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The principal isn't putting anyone in the lottery, the parents are! He was just trying to explain the new system to a bunch of uninformed first-timers. Nothing evil was intended.

The only portion of Hill residnts that are going to be "exluded" are the ones IB for the Cluster without siblings. The proximity preference will enable a lot of young Hill families north of Stanton Park to go to SWS, should this be added in 2014. Trinidad is not walking distance, and Potomac Gardens no longer has preferecnce, either.[/quote]

Well then count me among the "uninformed."  How can he only accept people who put SWS as their first choice?  That's not the way it's supposed to work.

Let's say there's 15 non-sibling spots for PS3 and 400 people apply for those spots.  All those people go in the lottery.  Doesn't matter what number preference they placed SWS.  The top 15 people get the spots, unless they ALSO get into a school that they ranked higher.  Then they would get their higher ranked school and would not get the SWS spot.

In other words, if I got a PS3 spot at SWS and ranked it 6th, but was waitlisted at my  1-5 ranked school, then I get the SWS spot.  That's how the lottery works.

There may not have been "evil intent" but if the principal explained this the way it was presented by the PP, then he is misleading people. [/quote]

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