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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Making it more complicated is going to benefit those who can navigate it best.  I think this benefits the wealthy who can figure the system out and buy in specific locations to take advantage of it.

For example, there are going to be certain houses that are <.5 mi to a target HRCS and >.5mi from their DCPS.  I could find those houses.  I highly doubt those who are economically disadvantaged could[/b].[/quote]

but its up to the charter to evoke it or not. leading to much uncertainty.  in  that way, at least, [b]you won't see housing prices affected[/b][/quote]

That's true in the short term.  But if a place like LAMB decided to offer it, I think it would drive up prices in any areas that meet the two criteria.  I'd certainly run the analysis if I were looking.[/quote]

Offer it one year and not the next, which is their perogative. Housing prices need more stability that that to shoot up.[/quote]

The bolded part is right on point.

The last comment about offering it one year and not the next makes no sense, mostly because most schools would never want to deal with the headache of cranky parents in the "off year" and the procedural cluster****s that would go along with that.

It absolutely gives a major advantage to the best resourced families interested for instance in immersion.  That apartment building next to YY would suddenly turn into condos LOL!  But in all seriousness, it's a proposal that only those who can afford to move homes to be strategic or those who already know this policy would apply to them.  Totally DISadvantages the least-resourced and those far far away from the HRCSs.[/quote]

Great, give "wealthy" families (households where parents earn six figures?) incentives to stay in the city because, when they bail from public schools for privates and the burbs, poor kids lose out.  The "least resourced" benefit when DC expands its tax base by hanging on to well-heeled parent tax payers, enabling a municipality to afford better services for the poor.  DC charters with long waiting lists have buildings in neighborhoods that would benefit from investment by home buyers seeking good schools.

What disadvantages poor kids in schools is myopic thinking about how to help them.  [/quote]

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