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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Someone upthread said that the advantage of DCPS over Arlington is that children have choices in form of charters and OOB. It seemed appropriate to me to point out that [b]a) lottery-based options are not real options since they are a dice roll,[/b] and b) they cannot be legitimately called an advantage over Arlington because ACPS, too, has many lottery-based options. What objection can there be to these fact-based statements? I am not trashing DCPS wholesale, nor praising Arlington above others. I am pointing out what I see as a flaw in some poster's argument. [/quote]

I don't get this at all - your position is that since there is no guarantee that a student will get onto a charter, it's not really an option?  You require a guarantee of where your child will spends 14 years in school?  [/quote]
My position is that an option that depends on an element of luck must be a) recognized as such and not sold as a regularly available option, and ) not held as an advantage over a neighboring jurisdiction that employs an identical, lottery-based network of educational options in addition to IB schools.[/quote]

Sweetheart, "luck" plays a roll in every aspect of one's life.  Just because I put my kid in an Arlington county school doesn't mean they will be "lucky" enough to get a great teacher, or that they will be "lucky" and the neighborhood school will turn out to be a great fit for my child.  I've read some of the Virginia threads.  It's not all peaches and roses over their either.  Our job as parents is to find the best school option for our child, whether it's through the lottery, the neighborhood school, or by going private (if that's something you can afford to do).

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you can get into a good school in DC if you're patient and persistent and perhaps willing to wait into October for a spot.  There are some folk that don't have the stomach for this.  I did and that's why all of my kids are at the same sought after school. I did my research and I was relentless.  So it's not all luck.  And even if it were all luck, you still have great schools and great options in DC that negate the OPs assertion that no school in DC is comparable to any school in Arlington.

Oh, and by the way, I did both a google search and a great schools search for public charter schools in Arlington, Virginia.  No results.  So name one.

If you're not trashing DC schools and praising Arlington schools above all others, then what is your point? 
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