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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would contend that chance is better than no choice at all.

Just because you didn't get your choice doesn't mean that someone else didn't either.[/quote]

I would argue that you are wrong and the majority of families don't like lotterying education. [/quote]

I really don't think I'm all that wrong and I'd suggest you take a deeper look beyond a simplistic question of "do you like the lottery".

It's pretty clear that given the fact that nearly half of the students in DC are in charters and the fact that there are many more who still want to get into charters and many more charters being applied for with strong interest behind them quite clearly says they still want to have choice even if that means by lottery.

Yes, some are frustrated that they didn't get into their first-choice school.  But for every one who didn't another one did.  And getting into your second-choice school rather than your first-choice school may still be a whole lot better than if you didn't try the lottery at all.  Just because some don't like lotteries doesn't mean they don't still want choice.   People definitely want choice, they just want the mechanism for getting into their desired schools tweaked.  But the problem is that nobody agrees on how to tweak it.  If, for example, schools were given more latitude in terms of admissions (like test in) rather than lottery, that would satisfy many families, but anger many others.  [/quote]

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