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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate the advantage some people have with using the lottery to cherry pick schools versus its intended purpose which was to give the most disadvantaged students the opportunity to attend higher performing schools that were outside of their neighborhood. The lottery needs a complete overhaul or new criteria. The children that need it the most are being waitlisted behind those that want certain programming and languages taught and enrichment activities when most of the time they can afford to get all of these extras for their kids on their own dime. [/quote]

What are you even talking about? The lottery was not created to give "the most disadvantaged" a leg up in admissions. That preference didn't even exist until a couple years ago (and it goes to a huge number of kids).

The lottery as we now know it replaced the old system where individual schools all had their own lotteries, and you had to enter each one separately. It was created because DC has a small number of good schools and huge number of garbage schools, and far more applicants to the good ones than could ever be accommodated.

If we didnt have the lottery, there would be way more parents leaving the city when their kids got to be school age. [/quote]

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