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[quote=Anonymous]Right, so your odds of getting into a charter are not as good as they were for families that entered in the year before.

So you could move or apply to private now.

You could lower your standards and stay.

You could try your local school for one year and see what you think, and either decide that the school doesn't meet your standards and move/go private, or lower your standards.

None of the above will do anything to change the status quo.

You could stay, convince your neighbors to stay, and work to advocate for change in the school.  This will be unlikely to benefit your child directly, but might benefit kids in the future.  It also will require a very heavy lift since you will be working against the political winds.   I appreciate the parents who do this but we need to be realistic that it is not something that everyone has the appetite for.  Sure, as more families are shut out of charters there might be more parents willing to do the hard work.  But this is not the same as the parents who started when their kids were infants to try to change Maury, for instance, when they also had Rhee on their side.  The politics are currently much different and 4th grade parents who were shut out of the lottery do not have time on their side.  [/quote]

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