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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again OP is asking about entrance into 3rd grade by demonstrating proficiency in Mandarin.  Currently seats in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades stay empty if a student leaves.  Replacing students who leave with those who know Mandarin at that grade level rather than keeping that seat empty isn't taking away from anyone.[/quote]

Aside from the fact that it's still strictly not allowed, I think you also grossly underestimate the challenge of creating a system where you are strictly lottery for lower grades but allow test in for upper grades.  What grade becomes the cut off?  What stops schools from making the same argument and going lower and lower in which grade this begins?  What if powerful people start to count on attrition as their way of getting in, what kinds of pressures does the school then get to push students out?

That may all sound like crazy paranoid questions to you... believe me, there is abundant charter school experiences nationwide to show it's not.  Politics are powerful.  The only way to insure the millions (tens of millions?  hundreds of millions?) of public money that is dedicated to access for UNDERSERVED students stays focused on providing access is to make it random.  Testing in in uppper grades still provides chances for abuse and siphoning.

But don't worry, at some point, no one but middle and upper income families will be able to afford to live inside the District anyway... it will be interesting to see what happens to charters when there are no low income families to serve anymore...[/quote]

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