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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Staggered entry years for middle and high school are not great, no. You can set up the rules of a lottery however you want (well, charters within the federal law that limits them), and those rules an be more or less inclusive. It’s not neutral. Also, I have no idea if the rules have racist intent, but in some cases there seem to be systemically racist outcomes.[/quote]

Explain what you think is a systematically racist outcome if a school's demographic composition actually reflects that of the District of Columbia population as a whole.  [/quote]

It does not represent the population in schools. Look, I don’t particularly care if some schools are more or less diverse than others, if parents chose them for proximity, or rigor, or sports, or whatever. But we should be thoughtful about whether the way we set up the choices affects the outcomes in ways that disadvantage some families, or advantage others. And, if we think that some people are advantaged in our lottery (high information, parents of twins, feeder patterns, whatever), we should be willing to revisit or at least consider if that is ok, especially if it results in disparate outcomes for different racial groups.[/quote]

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