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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  For those who asked why the OOB kids get to stay and the IB kids who move don't, the OOB kids got their spots through a competitive lottery. [/quote]

You're never going to convince me that someone who won a lottery is deserving. Lucky, yes, deserving, no.

In a similar vein, someone born with rich enough parents to buy into a better school district is lucky too. Is one kind of luck better than another? I don't think so.

The problem with the way school assignments are done now is that luck is paramount, and the differences in outcomes is stark. Win the lottery in pre-K, you're on the most desirable path for thirteen years. No one else in the entire system has that certainty.

A new OOB lottery at each admission year would spread the luck more evenly, which is fairer. It would have a practical benefit as well. The current OOB system is highly destabilizing to feeder schools which feed the less than "high regarded" schools. Parents know that if they transfer into the feeder pattern of a more desirable school they are set. So they bail, even though the school they are bailing for may not itself be any more desirable than their current school. If there were no feeder rights families would be more likely to stay, which stabilizes the entire system.

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