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I oppose it. At risk kids have the same opportunity to lottery into BASIS that everyone else does.

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When the city transferred from individual school lotteries to the one central lottery, it happened because of equity. Equal chances. No one has more chance than others.
Now, the "equitable access" seats really means "I have more access than others" seats which are taking away from other families.
To be fair, I find the sibling preference seats wrong as well.
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Unfairness abounds in the lottery.  If you are a Ward 3 family (thus with access to the strongest general education high schools in the city) but you decide to lottery for Basis (or Latin), then you have a fall back option in your neighborhood school that is acceptable.  Thus there is no risk to you in applying to Basis in the lottery and ranking it as your first choice.  If, however, you live anyplace OTHER than Ward 3, and you cannot either (a) afford private or (b) afford to move to either Ward 3 or a suburban neighborhood with acceptable schools, then your lottery choices have to be much more strategic since you HAVE to get in somewhere that is better than your neighborhood school.  [b]The EA preference really screws over those families who aren't wealthy enough to have real options but aren't poor enough to be "at risk" because it takes seats off the board for those  families. [/b] [/quote]

So a big f u to the middle class. Great.[/quote]

Yep. But “equity!” [/quote]

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