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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
I think you are still missing the point - once again, schools vary in terms of offerings and capabilities - some are stronger in athletics, some are stronger in the arts, some are stronger in STEM and so on.   Why would you send your STEM-loving kid to a school that is weak on STEM, but "popular" because of its athletics program?  That makes no sense.  If someone is interested in "choice" purely as a function of popularity as opposed to WHAT MAKES SENSE FOR THEIR KID they are completely missing the point.  And, with so many parents that seem clueless and who don't seem to be doing their homework on schools other than just a superficial pass at "popularity" or taking a scattershot shotgun approach at applying to a whole slew of schools and seeing where they get in, it's no wonder the lottery system is so clogged, and it's no wonder why there's so much "september shuffle" et cetera.[/quote]

I think you and the poster to whom you are replying are simply disagreeing about theory versus reality. In theory, school choice would allow DC parents to evaluate the various offerings and select the one most appropriate for their child. In reality, the chance of getting into your number one choice is sufficiently slim that parents are happy to get into any "good" school ("good" not necessarily equaling "most appropriate"). Parents are not missing the point about what makes sense for their kid. Rather, they are accurately getting the point that the choice that makes sense is unlikely to be available.
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When we have parents doing things like griping about kids having to learn Chinese at Yu Ying, it's pretty clear that they didn't care about "appropriate" or make any informed choice when they turned the application in.  That would only get WORSE when it's reduced to neighborhood preference and unified lottery and application process where it's just a simple matter of checking an extra box on the application to apply.[/quote]

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