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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the pp was not saying participating in the lottery was elitist or classist.  they were saying that the way some people fully write off schools that are not super popular and competitive to get a spot at in the lottery and/or schools with lower student test scores as bad schools to be avoided at all
cost can be driven by anxiety and bias…[/quote]

I don't know about that. My kid went to a title 1 school for elementary, and there was this kind of judgement on upper income parents not to lottery out. But when lower income families lotteried into a better school, no one said anything (because of course they should be trying to find the best educational path for their child).

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The difference is when upper income families leave, they take their resources, and often the time they have to volunteer and be advocates for the school, with them, and there is a real cumulative effect as many families do that, especially as title 1 schools can quickly teeter between having solid or insufficient parent engagement. The other difference is that [b]the upper income family’s child (presuming the school has reasonable leadership and good teachers) is likely to do well at that school or nearly anywhere,[/b] while the lower income child may be benefited from being at a school that is more resourced than their in-bounds option.[/quote]

This is the part that actually might not be true. How do you know that the outcome for an upper income kid may actually be stifled by a less challenging school?[/quote]

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