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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that logically, a randomized process is always going to be the most fair option, and that ranking schools cuts down on the shuffle and general chaos. But I was one of the people entirely shut out, so if asked this question I am always going to respond that it was a total failure. That's the difference between cold hard logic and reason and my personal situation. This process has turned me into someone who is anti-lottery and a big supporter of good quality neighborhood schools. [/quote]

Someone (possibly you) would have been entirely shut out in past years too.  The difference is that you know it now, not next October.  That was a hard six months for almost everyone, and it served nobody any good.[/quote]

OK, so let's say the system is better than it was, but no system that is set up for some parents to be shut out of a decent public education for their children is a good system.

A system that works is one in which every kid gets a good education because they live in the city - not because they lucked out in a lottery in which there are winners and losers.[/quote]

Yeah, but see... not to be insensitive to the hurt of being totally shut out, but the families the most upset and vocal now (at least on DCUM) about the lack of good neighborhood schools would not be on here posting about it if they'd gotten into a school they loved.  The point being: communities have to care about and be active in their neighborhood schools REGARDLESS of whether their kids go there if those schools are ever going to improve.  And the fastest improvements come when more people go to them.  But people don't really care or get up in arms about the poor quality schools until they're shut out, and then they find a Plan B after being shut out and - unless Plan B is actually a neighborhood school - they go on with their lives at their Plan B school and either get used to it, lottery again next year, or move, and nothing about their actual neighborhood school changes due to their outrage.  This is a problem.[/quote]

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