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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would disagree that it is not well thought out.  There are a lot of versions of it in San Francisco, Boston, New York to a limited extent, Montgomery County.

I think the question is what are the alternatives if the open free for all of the OOB process is eliminated?  At this point if we left the status quo, we would still have a shortage of high quality schools to send out kids.  [/quote]

The point is, with controlled choice, you would no longer have any hope of getting your kid into a "good" school. At least in the current system you can play the lottery every year and you are likely to eventually get in somewhere where there are a critical mass of children who are not living in poverty. Then you get to go through the whole process again for middle school. Controlled choice would eliminate that possibility, which would mean families with young kids should leave the city after K, just as they did in the last decade, instead of trying to stick it out,  and house prices in improving, walkable neighborhoods should go down.

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