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[quote=Anonymous]Awwww...I think it's so sweet that you're so concerned about "fairness" for D.C. residents.  Since you're so interested in "fairness" and preserving "scarce resources", I'm assuming that you also want private schools to reflect the demographics in the D.C. area (i.e. reserve 56% of spots for D.C. Blacks, 33% for D.C. Whites and 8.3% for D.C. Hispanics--in order to be comparable to the city's racial make up).  I mean, you wouldn't possibly want to reserve all of those D.C. spots for privileged people in Georgetown and Upper Northwest now, would you?

[quote=Anonymous] I know this topic has been brought up before, but this is just one thing that continues to irk me. Don’t DC privates have some responsibility to the city and its residents especially since most (if not all) are tax exempt entities. I remember Anthony Williams wasn’t too happy about this, and now I can totally see his point. Why isn’t there a tier system that will allow for qualified city children to get in first before taking in suburban kids (I’d feel better about this if we had a commuter tax but that is a different issue all together). This about scarce resources being given to people who don’t even live here. Don’t get me wrong, most of the kids and families are great but I’m tired of seeing qualified DC children losing out on their first or second choice schools that seem to be filled with suburban kids that come from areas with already good public schools. That’s not fair. [/quote][/quote]

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