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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While not in favor, a ranked choice lottery would be fascinating.  Our family is in the Cardinal district.  Our top 4 choices would be Cardinal, Nottingham, Tuckahoe and Glebe.  Wouldn't exactly get you the cross-county choices you're looking for.

My guess is your average Discovery parent would choose Discovery, Jamestown, Nottingham and Tuckahoe.

[b]Other than probably a small proportion, APS families are going to choose the schools near their homes.  [/b]OP, you may be new to this but this has been rehashed endless times over the last 15yrs.  APS families overwhelmingly value proximity more than any other single factor in choosing their child's school.  Best of luck as the latest to try and push this rock uphill.[/quote]

This. A while ago I read an assessment of the impact on New Orleans schools when they went to an all lottery system after Katrina. By and large, families picked schools near their homes so it didn't do much to desegregate. [/quote]

Right!  This is precisely the point that has been hammered over and over again.[/quote]

It is reasonable to expect that most families would choose close schools, especially after such extreme turmoil and upheaval as a devastating hurricane that's taken years to recover from, and at the start of a new choice admissions program.  People are more comfortable with what they are already familiar with.

Regardless, instead of going to the first negative example people can think of or pops up in an internet search, people should dig a bit deeper.  Learn more about the various efforts and the successes, dare to open their minds a bit about possibilities and what things might be equally or more important than buying their kid's public school.  The Century Foundation in particular has followed this issue and has compiled a great deal of helpful information.  [b]Let's spend less time arguing our existing unproven theories and personal opinions and spend that time instead reading more about it.  Then come back and debate with more knowledge and credibility.[/b]

https://tcf.org/search/louisville+KY+school+system/
https://tcf.org/content/report/school-integration-practice-lessons-nine-districts/
https://tcf.org/content/report/cambridge-public-schools/?agreed=1

https://tcf.org/content/report/louisville-kentucky-reflection-school-integration/
"A group of students who graduated high school in the district’s first year of integration have since formed an organization, Pioneers of Desegregation and Forced Busing.62 The group’s members felt as though going to an integrated school opened their eyes to how things were outside of their community63"

And after a Supreme Court ruling against Louisville's integration efforts:
"But any assertion that the journey toward integration had ended was far from the truth. In a community where some parents78 had grown up in Louisville’s integrated environment, students and community members fought hard to maintain some version of integration. As a result, the district developed a new plan that based integration on more than just race. In its revised form, the district placed schools in geographic clusters79 or groups of diverse neighborhoods based on80 census block characteristics including percentage minority residents, household income, and adult education level. Parents would be able to list preferences for specific schools in their cluster in an application, and the district would account for both family school choice and diversity goals. While there is no guarantee that a student would be assigned their first choice school, most families seem satisfied with a process that gave them greater variety and control over their child’s educational future.81"

And since 1990, Louisville's housing segregation has decreased by 20%.  Perhaps the first step does not have to be the County Board's.  Perhaps APS can have greater impact on housing segregation in Arlington than anyone dares to think. If you create a district whereby there are few disparities between schools, all schools become more equally desired and sought-after; so it doesn't matter so much which neighborhood you buy into (which is probably what people are really afraid of).[/quote]

Love hearing how you view parents with kids currently in the system as having no knowledge or credibility in this area. [/quote]

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