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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The lottery matches people with schools on their ranked lists!  That’s the whole point of the lottery — to let people have preferences!

If more Black people put Basis and Walls on their lists, their would be more Black students at Basis and Walls.  If the schools don’t appeal to them, they don’t put them on their lists.  It’s a feature, not a bug!

I know some charter schools do targeted outreach in effort to get more students from underrepresented groups to include them on their lists.  But marketing alone can’t make someone like a school if they don’t like it’s approach.

Montessori, for example, doesn’t appeal to all demographics equally.  Does that make Montessori bad?  Or great for the people who think it’s great.

It’s about choice.  Maybe if your communist you can argue that no should get choice because difference = bad, but then it’s the charter system that is “racist,” not the lottery.

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More Black people are not putting Basis and Walls on their list because they don't feel welcome there and why not?  The system nurtures racism.

And there is definitely some pervasive racism within the community at these schools and this is obvious by the segregation it supports.
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