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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only fair way to use the resources of a school like Yu Ying is to have a lottery for every seat every year. Why should children get to have a whole six years of Chinese immersion just because they got lucky in the lottery once? Every student should have an equal chance to have immersion every year.

As a matter of fact, why should any student have a "right" to a seat at the same school they went to the year before? All charter and DCPS school seats should be assigned by lottery every year. That's the only way to treat all students equally.

What's that you say? All those lotteries and transferring would be a big burden on families? That it would undermine the whole point of immersion if you could only do it for one year? Are you saying those concerns outweigh the need for complete equality of access to every seat at every grade level?

Well then. We agree that complete fairness and equal access to a given school has to give way to other concerns. So all we are arguing about is which concerns are important enough.

One side of this thread thinks that at the point where complete fairness means that a seat has to go vacant--because a lottery would most likely pick a student who is not equipped to enter a mandarin immersion classroom at a third-grade level--it is better to allow the seat to be filled by someone who is equipped than to let it stay vacant.

The other side thinks that it is better to let the seat go vacant.[/quote]
You're ignoring the significant number of posters who are describing current law and explaining/speculating on why things are the way they are. [/quote]

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