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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone against having preference for teacher's children should also be against sibling preference. If you aren't for both, you just sound bitter.[/quote]

That makes no sense at all.  While sibling preference is unquestionably also drastically limiting the numbers of open spots for new families at every popular school, the policy makes sense.  It would be too destablizing and crazy-making if every family had to go through lottery insanity for every child individually.   It is a bad idea for so many reasons, some already mentioned.  And I say that as a parent of an only child who has all kinds of personal peace I had to make re: how families with siblings already in good schools have it made!

But teachers hopefully, presumably, go into teaching because they want to teach.  And hopefully, presumably, they apply to teach at schools they think would be good fits or at least would give them good experience.  Throwing into the mix that if you teach at School A your kids have preference at School A adds an unwarranted and frankly unfair factor to why teachers choose to teach at all, and at certain schools for some people.  I have been a teacher (I'm now a social worker), but even as an ex-teacher, while yes, I would have been thrilled to have that preference if I was teaching at a school I wanted my kids at, I would have been the first to admit that in a system that is supposed to be admissions by random lottery, this is not fair and not justified.  I would not have turned down the spot for my kid, but I don't think it's fair.[/quote]

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