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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about a lottery only system for high school? Students can apply to a special focus program or one of 4 comprehensive high schools.

High school students can travel independently -- most do already.

Turn Wilson into a middle/elementary school to deal with WOTP crowding.

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No, but thanks.  The kids that drive Wilson's moderately successful test scores won't stick around hoping to lottery into a decent program.  We certainly wouldn't have.

I remember saying this to the former deputy mayor for education, and she seemed really non-plussed by the idea that the parents that DCPS wants actually have choices and won't accept uncertainty.  Although I'm sure she must have heard the same thing dozens of times before, she acted like she hadn't.[/quote]

You are in the minority. 75% of all students in DC are not in their IB school. And the numbers are even higher for high school given the number of application school students.

More importantly, the city frankly doesn't care if a few thousand families IB for Wilson leave any more than they would care if I left my EOTP house due to school choices I didn't like. There are plenty of people who will buy both our homes and the city will make money on the transaction fees.

The metric you are citing just isn't one that matters to the city. [/quote]

Sorry, but the city does care if the schools' scores will crater. Which they will if you force families to attend an unknown school across the city when a perfectly great school is a few blocks from their house.

We live in Glover Park. I can rent my rowhouse out for $5.5K easily and net a tidy profit every month if they tell me I need to shlep my kid to Ward 6 for middle school. I live three blocks from the local MS, why would I (or any other family with means) stick around to have DCPS/OSSE tell me where to go? The families in Ward 3 are basically the financial tax base for the rest of DCPS. If you force them into city-wide lottery, they will pull up their stakes very quickly. How does the DC government make up for the short fall?[/quote]

Lol at you thinking tour house would still rent for $5.5k if this scenario plays out.[/quote]

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