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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]David Grosso calls for a review of all 4 years of lottery data

Link: http://www.nbcwashington.com/blogs/first-read-dmv/Review-All-Four-Years-of-DC-School-Lottery-Councilmember-Says-423045494.html[/quote]

Well, assuming all of the data and relevant emails will be made available, the next step would be to subpoena Kaya Henderson about what she did.  As long as she doesn't lie, she's not going to be in any legal jeopardy.  As for her future employment prospects, probably not so great.[/quote]

Grosso loves Kaya and would never do anything that would put her in bad spot. Plus he was in charge of oversight during these years so could potentially reflect badly on him. This is just window dressing for us dumb voters[/quote]

+1 Yup.  Lottery data will not show anything as these are discretionary spots.  Grosso will say x thousand kids were fairly matched in the lottery process, and these 7 cases were aberrations.[/quote]

7X4=almost 30. and that is if 7 is representative and not a low outlier. [b]All those kids need to be out at the end of the year[/b].  Their parents can afford to move IB. It might be they can only apply this to government officials (so kaya's friend and Fenty is off the hook). But at least we can eliminate this as a perk of office! Maybe this will be the beginning of the end of cronyism in DC - but only if there are immediate consequences. I feel much more strongly about this than about residency cheaters, which happens by those who make less than 100,000 a year and don't have the same economic (though inconvenient) options these people have.[/quote]

That makes zero sense. The children were placed in those schools within the approved process; Kaya had discretion and she used it. There is no reason or justification to remove kids at those schools who now have a right to their feeder pattern. [/quote]

These public officials [b]acted unethically[/b] and knowingly [b]accepted a public benefit[/b], at the expense of residents. They should either give back the seats or resign. [/quote]

You need to go back on your meds. It wasn't unethical for them to make the request through the formal process. I don't think it should have been made available, but it was. And they made the request. And some non-connected people also used the process (unsuccessfully, to be sure). So it was available to all. And the accepting public benefit line is laughable. Are you trying to sound like a lawyer? Did you hear that on Law & Order? Taken to its logical extreme that would prohibit these employees from having garbage picked up or sending their kids to DCPS schools. There's nothing wrong with "accepting a public good".

So many of you are missing the larger picture here. The problem wasn't the employees asking or Kaya granting. The problem is that the discretion was available in the first place, that [b]Kaya browbeat people who weren't politically connected for having the audacity to ask[/b], that Bowser doesn't have a clue that any of this is a problem, that city officials may or may not be lying about who actually benefited, or how, and that it isn't clear what type of pressure or promises were deployed to get Kaya to concede.

I get it, people are upset. But if you want to create real,, lasting change then you need to focus your ire on the actual problems and then propose solutions. Platitudes and strings of pretty words that don't mean what you think they mean don't get us anywhere.  [/quote]

This is the part that still bothers me the most, personally. Either all parents should have the right to ask, or no one should. 
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