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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing you may not realize when your kids are very young is that there's tons of good options when it comes to elementary schools, but as the child ages, the options get much, much worse. DCI is a massive improvement over MacFarland and Roosevelt, and a 20 minute commute seems fairly normal. And there's not a huge price difference between living in Petworth and living in Brightwood/Takoma/Shepherd Park, and you could end up moving closer to DCI eventually. [/quote] So true. Everyone is fighting for access to OOB schools, not because that school is much better than the neighborhood school, but because the guaranteed Middle is superior. The lottery here is infuriating. Maybe this could be fixed by getting rid of all guaranteed spots and having every middle be lottery.[/quote]

You're frustrated by your little scramble in elementary school and your solution is to burn down the city.[/quote]

making all spots in all dcps schools subject to the lottery would be a whole lot fairer than what we do now, where we auction off spaces in the most desirable schools via housing prices while the least desirable schools are half empty. some of these schools are extremely underenrolled. [/quote]

It works for charters, of course, and has for many years, but somehow, someway it would be just impossible for DCPS too.[/quote]

That’s not how charters work.  Parents have to opt in to lottery into a charter.  The parent has to be knowledgeable enough about the due dates, platforms, etc.  A large portion of DC children do not live with parents who do that, for many different reasons.

What PP is suggesting is automatic lottery for every enrolled kid at any school.  People would move out of DC in that scenario.[/quote]

The only people who would move would be Janney and Deal and JR parents worried that undesirables (ie poor black kids) would be joining their schools. [/quote]

They would move because they would lottery into schools across town and that's not what they signed up for. This has happened in other cities. [/quote]

Yikes. You have literally no clue how the lottery works, do you? That's not how it works at all. [/quote]

The lottery is modeled after the system that's used to place doctors in residencies. You name your top 12 choices, in your order of preference. If you match with your number one school, then you're in. If not, you go to your No. 2 school. If you don't match there, you go to your No. 3 school. You can't match to a school that you didn't pick, and most people pick schools that are near them. This notion that people are going to get stuck in schools they didnt pick that are way across town is not even possible.  [/quote]

Yes it is possible.  Look up how the San Francisco lottery worked.  I assume DC would do the same.  The problem with this lottery versus the current one or your residency example is that [b]you can strike out at all of your choices[/b].  If DC goes full lottery system, they must place a kid at a school.  So if your top 12 are full based on other criteria (which usually takes into account SES and then sibling preference) you can end up at a random school with spots available.[/quote]

But every kid has a guarantee spot k-12 at their neighborhood DCPS. (Don't count PK but it is an extra that is it's own thing).[/quote]

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