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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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We are at a Wilson feeder and I think that's a great idea. You could have innovative programming at different high schools, which kids could select based on interest. It would make the test in schools stronger too. It would be much fairer from an equity standpoint too.

But DCPS would have to be OK colocating schools, since no one elementary or middle school should be big enough to fill the building. [/quote]

I'm so against it.  [b]What if you don't get into a good school? [/b] The proportion of at-risk kids in the system is so high, and DCPS' serving of them so inadequate, that it's a real possibility.  [/quote]

Why should the risk of a "not good school" be borne entirely by poor kids? Why shouldn't your kid, and my kid, shoulder some of that risk too? Besides, if our kids are as good as we think they are, they will get into a test-in school (which, under this hypothetical plan, would be expanded).[/quote]

Because people will leave for the suburbs and then it'll be a much worse school system overall.  [/quote]

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