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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I think what many would argue (rightly or wrongly) is that a lot if not most of what makes the good schools good (i.e. high test scores) is who goes there not the school itself (or a modification of this: the families who went/go there built the school and made it good, e.g. teachers, programs, amenities, but it would necessarily remain good without them). Therefore if you fool around with the community that goes to the "good" schools, you have eliminated the good schools altogether and sent the school builders fleeing to the burbs or privates. I'm curious as to how any similar scenarios played out in SF, Boston, NY, or MoCo and whether the "good" schools remained good.[/quote]

My understanding is that there are relatively few upper middle class families in the Boston and SF systems.  By abnd large they head to the burbs.  NY is much more complex given the number of boroughs[/quote]

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