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[quote=Anonymous]The real issue is that Walls is clearly using a completely arbitrary process to select kids at this point--it is basically the interview and that's it. A "ten minute" interview that for many kids is 3 minutes. There is zero transparency in terms of how they assign 31 points based on that interview. And the outcomes are nonsensical. Virtually no kids from two of the wards where (one would think) interviews might really benefit/compensate for the disadvantaged schools they come from and very high performing/charismatic kids getting rejected while others get in (from the same demographics/geographic areas)....lucky for them the school simply benefits from "scarcity"...people only want it because it is selective (ask any parents with a kid there and one at Wilson which is better...in my experience, most prefer Wilson by a mile).[/quote]
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