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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you're not understanding what the proposed combined lottery will do. It will dramatically REDUCE the total number of schools parents can lottery for. It is the opposite of scattershot. The idea is to force parents to lottery only for the schools they are very serious about. Like the DCPS lottery, you will not be waitlisted on schools you ranked lower than where you get in. Theoretically at least, it should reduce the number of applicants for any one school, improving your odds at the schools you do try for.
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I imagine a lot of people would revolt if they don't at least get a chance to lottery for at least 50% of Mundo Verde, EL Haynes, Capital City, LAMB, Two Rivers, Inspired Teaching, Creative Minds, Stokes, and Yu Ying even if it's little better than a true (low-chance) lottery.  That's 5-6 slots at minimum.

And a neighborhood preference that blocks out the 5-10 seats typically available at entering grades for a number of those schools will create great angst and eventually anger.

Imagine the Washington Post Education (Emma Brown) story on "How Mundo Verde became rapidly gentrifying Bloomingdale's neighborhood school" in a couple years.  Not a good situation for the PCSB and charter families, who already have their hands full explaining that charters are not a way for some parents to keep their children safely ensconced in a school system of their own creation rather than the dysfunctional, segregated DCPS.

A neighborhood preference intended to not make it seem like charters are for gentrifier haves rather than longtime neighborhood have-nots can cut both ways.[/quote]

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