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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really see it as helping.  I think unified applications as will likely be  implemented, and a greatly broadened lottery process will then cause far more randomization and will clog up schools with people form whom the school was 5th or 6th preference, who don't really want to be there, as opposed to those who do actually want there as 1st or 2nd preference.[/quote]

And how is that different from the way it is now? I know very few people who have gotten their first or second choices, other than in-bounds schools, in the past couple of lottery cycles.[/quote]

Now people at least have to go out of their way to apply, it minimizes the likelihood of the scattershot, check all the boxes approach.  With a unified lottery, unless it is very specifically focused and targeted (which it probably won't be) you will likely have EVEN LESS chance of getting into the charter you want.  That's how it's different.[/quote]

Agreed.  scattershot is a good word for it.  With choice in our schools, the charters fill with people who have chosen to apply there, no matter how far down their own personal list.  Giving thousands of families who have never heard of a school a chance in multiple charter lotteries just because it's on a list - and don't tell me people won't check a box if they wouldn't send their kid there - if they need to "fill up" their option list or they have simply heard of it or like the name or a myriad of reasons why people might check a box - will potentially put children in schools that their parents a) have no intention of getting them to daily (Ward 1 to Ward 8, for example) or b) a school that isn't a fit for the family (an immersion or Montessori school that the family has no intention of supporting).  By keeping the charter lotteries separate from DCPS you preserve school choice.  Combining the lotteries sounds like a terrible, terrible idea.[/quote]

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