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Just what are the policy advantages of a "citywide lottery," pray tell?  I assume (perhaps incorrectly?) that any of these said "policy advantages" are based on a premise that the same capable students who currently inhabit a middle school like Deal are going to enter a city-wide high school lottery.  I think the likelihood of that premise being correct is close to nil.  Please tell me how the outcome could be otherwise, given the evidence that already exists over the decades in this city [hint: parents either move away, or move away if they don't get into a decent Charter]?  Or, if you agree that the likelihood of the most capable students at Deal entering a lottery for HS is near zero, what would be the advantages of a citywide lottery?  [/quote]

The advantage of a citywide lottery is that ability to pay for proximity to Tenleytown is not used as a criterion for access to what you believe are the better city schools. It undoes some of the effect of residential segregation. It requires Ward 3 to invest in citywide solutions rather than hoard privilege. Should I go on? There is a long literature on this. [/quote]

Sounds good, but I think you missed the PP's point, which is that the effect of abolishing neighborhood schools would not be the creation of better schools throughout the city, but renewed flight to the suburbs and privates, as it had happened for decades. Schools are good when they are primarily attended by good students, and there currently aren't enough of those in DC to create good schools throughout the city. It's a nice idea to prevent the "hoarding of privilege", but that privilege isn't emanating from the schools. The schools are an effect of pre-existing privilege, which you are not going to redistribute by trying to redistribute school access. But I'm sure you know this and still think there is a magic way a system that is almost 80% economically disadvantaged could be turned into an educational utopia if only Ward 3 could be forced to "invest" in city-wide solutions.[/quote]

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