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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does the immersion have a sibling link but not any of the choice magnets? Aren't those lottery based, too?[/quote]

Which choice magnets? There was a family in our neighborhood who had all three of her boys at the aerospace technology magnet program at Parkland. I highly doubt that all three of them got in through a random lottery.[/quote]

Choice MS magnets have sibling preference.[/quote]
All choice MS magnets?  I didn't know this.

I don't think sibling preference is fair.  You could potentially have one year where almost no one without a sibling link can get in.  It should be an individual lottery, not family lottery.[/quote]

So?  Each year, most kids who want to get in won't get in.  Whether you won't get in because your particular lottery number wasn't randomly chosen or because you don't have the sibling preference doesn't really make a difference.  Having the sibling preference provides a benefit to the program and the families by enriching the sense of community and allowing families with more than one child in the program to speak the language at home to each other.  Not having the preference doesn't provide a benefit to the program. [b] It just lets other families in the county feel like it's more "fair."[/b]  Maybe I might have a different opinion if my child had applied to the program, but I have no dog in this fight, so this is just my objective opinion about it.[/quote]
PP here. I have no dog in this particular fight, either. I don't have a kid in immersion.  But, I do have a kid in another magnet.   Yes, the program should be "fair" to all the families.    In what sense should a school program NOT ever be fair?

The benefit of the program is to enrich the student, and spread the awareness of foreign languages.  Better to spread that across the county than keep it in select families.[/quote]

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