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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think all these points about the open houses are valid, and one of the reasons the new lottery system (where you have to pref your schools when entering the lottery), has done parents a disservice.  In the past, you could attend open houses to get an initial sense of a school, and then once you got your lottery results, if you got into more than one school, you could do your due diligence and ask for private meetings or private tours, or talk more in depth to parents before making a final decision.  Now, it's not reasonable to expect parents to research every school on their lottery list in such depth, nor is it realistic to expect principals to answer a bunch of questions from potential parents who have very little chance of actually getting a spot at a school.  So parents are ultimately making choices about schools based on much less information than they would have had previously.  I think now parents running open houses have a much greater responsibility for providing informative and accurate open houses than they did in the past.  I know there were certain things said at our school's open house last year that are not true at our school, in reality.  If we are going to have "school choice" parents should be in a position to make informed choices.[/quote]

I liked the old way better too.  It may have taken longer because of the shuffling, but we felt confident in our final choice since we'd had enough time to determine if it'd be best for our child.  The new system seems like such a whirlwind visiting and researching so many schools.  [/quote]

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