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I get your point.   But right now my only location preference is my in-bounds DCPS school, Bancroft, which offers a very specialized bent and low test scores to boot.  I have no preference to attend any so-called traditional school (good or bad) and was shut out of all lotteries.  Is that what policymakers -- and families -- should want?[/quote]

So you want locational preference at a charter school because you don't like your neighborhood option? Of course nobody is altruistic when they are thinking about their own kids. I don't have a neighborhood school that I like either, AND I don't have any charters I like around me either. I also was shut out of the top charters this year. So I should have an even smaller chance of getting into a great charter because I can't afford to move nearby? The idea that locational preference for charters is going to HELP regular or poor families in DC is pure fiction; on the contrary, it would help the most affluent, who would be able to pick from choice charter neighborhoods as well as choice DCPS neighborhoods.

PS - Lots of families would consider themselves lucky to be in-bounds for Bancroft.[/quote]

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