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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So whats the solution -- should we move to an all lottery model?  You rank your top 4 choices and you get what you get?[/quote]

Eliminate all choice school options in SA.  Make everyone go to their neighborhood school.[/quote]

No, we've got enough equity to move, and plenty of income to afford private, as do all of our neighbors. Force is not likely to help. People who wouldn't send their kids to the neighborhood schools by choice won't go to the neighborhood schools by force. Some that are better integrated and trending in the right direction with test scores might stand a chance, but the ones that have only one SFH neighborhood and then hundreds of units of AH within the walk zone, where over 70% of the students within the physical zone are living below the poverty line, won't ever change unless the neighborhoods themselves change or the boundaries change significantly. The vast majority of UMC professionals will not accept sending their kids to schools without adequate capital, both financial and social. Do I like that this is the truth? No. But it is the truth. It's a fantasy to believe differently. I think most people living in SA want truly diverse schools, and that is why the option schools are so popular. Until they perceive high poverty schools as being just as able to address the needs and abilities of their more affluent children, they will find alternatives. They will because they can. Simple as that. [/quote]

Agreed. People aren’t understanding that a school like Randolph would not be significantly impacted if every UMC kid suddenly enrolled next year. Maybe it drops from 77 % low income to 69%. That’s not going to be acceptable to most educated parents. As well it shouldn’t. [/quote]

Last year, 29% of Randolph's APS-enrolled neighborhood base transferred out of the school. According to DCUM, UMC families transfer out of Randolph in droves, so it's fair to assume that a substantial number of those students were UMC. If the UMC students made up even 50% of the transferring students and all of those students (regardless of SES) went back to Randolph, the FARMS rate for last year would have dropped from 74% to 68%. If the UMC % were 75%, though, rate would drop to 61%. Obviously that's not a full solution to the problem, but a 13 percentage point reduction isn't trivial either.[/quote]

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