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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about no lottery?
You live where you live and your kids can go to school in your neighborhood-end of story. Maybe some specialized schools to test into, especially for MS and high school. 
Just like everywhere else in America.
I don't think that MCPS has any lottery. If you live in Rockville, you can go to the schools in Rockville, not lottery into Potomac. MCPS is one big system but they don't move regular ed. kids all over the place to fill seats.
For generations, people all over America have been buying houses in towns and neighborhoods where they like the schools-it has always been part real estate decisions for people with kids.
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How about no boundaries? Have good schools in all parts of the city. Since they're all good, people will go to the closest one. If a school gets too crowded, build another one nearby.

It's two sides of the same coin.

The problem isn't boundaries or lotteries, it's scarcity. If every neighborhood had a good neighborhood school, no one would care about boundaries and we wouldn't have a lottery. The problem is that instead of focusing on eliminating the scarcity, our political leaders have focused on rationing it. The rationing guarantees that the scarcity will never be addressed, and only makes it worse.  Instead of building better lotteries our leaders should be asking why we need a lottery at all. The most breathtakingly cynical move was in 2009, when Michelle Rhee guaranteed feeder rights through high school for all OOB kids. That led directly to the mess we're in today, and guarantees that mess can't be fixed for a generation.[/quote]

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