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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For 5th grade, we got >270 for Basis. Didn’t know such a bad result was even possible! (Would love to hear horror stories so we can pretend we dodged a bullet there ;). Our kid likes elementary school math and science but is not advanced… yet.) The total waitlist length in recent years looks like it’s been between 200-260 students, so 270 is a head scratcher.

And then there’s the 2 Latins. >450 for both.

This kind of result is similar to other lottery results we’ve gotten in prior years.  Is it a blind random lottery or do they sort of chunk slots by location, demographics, or maybe even things like EAPs or prior attendance issues? Seems weird how consistently we’ve drawn crappy numbers when it’s just a luck-based process.  I guess I’m being a bit paranoid. Probability and randomness are what  they are. [/quote]

I'm sure it's just blind luck that *two* members of the city council (Trayon, Nadeau) have children at LAMB, which has probably the longest waitlist of any school in the city. [/quote]

LAMB may be a special case. There have always been rumors about the lottery there. They were also the last school to join the unified lottery.[/quote]

[u]There's a long history of DC officials jumping to the front of school waitlists[/u]. The education chancellor had to resign a few years ago when it came out that he skipped the line to get his daughter in somewhere.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-public-schools-leader-to-resign-after-skirting-school-assignment-rules/2018/02/20/9b372230-1662-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html[/quote]

No, there isn't. In fact the story you point to isn't even an example of this. At the time this occurred the process inexplicably permitted discretion by Niles to make assignments based on individual circumstances. The Chancellor went through the formal process - he had his wife make the approach in some silly BS argument that he wasn't involved. She allowed it. Clearly the system should not have allowed this discretion, but he actually worked within the then in effect rules.

I am aware of no examples of evidence that any official or other person has been able to skirt the lottery rules. If you know of one and not tin foil hat conspiracies I am all ears.

P.S. I am not defending the Chancellor. It was a bonehead move and the fact that he had his wife make the approach is proof he knew it should not have been done. But I can't sit back and watch crazy people impugn the lottery process which is one of the best run city programs. [/quote]

Fente TWICE 
Snow

these are just two I can throw out off the top of my head[/quote]

Good Lord, wasn't Fenty pre-lottery?[/quote]

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