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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are at Wilson and didn’t apply to Walls, so I have no personal stake in this. What gets me about the ongoing upset about the Walls process last year is the sense of entitlement—as if Walls was the birthright of some group of “really smart kids” as judged by random parents. 
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I’m not saying the Walls process last year was good—I agree that putting so much weight on the interview is terrible—but the idea that the old way resulted in the “right” results is pretty narrow thinking.[/b][/quote]

No one is saying that the old way was great or even good.  No one is saying their kid "deserved" a spot.

The gripe is that spots in an "application or magnet" high school were based on a 2 minute interview.  
That's the gripe.  Nothing more.  
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A pure lottery of the top 200 or 500 GPAs would have been better.  It's the whole  "2 minute subjective interview" that really rubbed people the wrong way.  
It was just so incompetent and poorly done.  [/b][/quote]

This.  1000 percent this.  The  "31 out of 36 points are based on an interview" and that interview (which is supposed to last 10 minutes actually lasts 2-3 minutes for half the kids) sends the message that either: 1) we're lying and it's completely random (but we're going to pretend to have a highly specific list of qualities that we can glean from 3 minutes of talking to 13 year olds); or 2) it's not completely random and it's based on something superficial but we're not telling you what that is.

I would be perfectly fine with a lottery--and I would be perfectly fine with a lottery weighted by ward or demographics, so long as it was transparent.[/quote]

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