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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The idea of assigning to a lottery the outcomes of the most important investment decisions a family has to make in a lifetime, if so unreasonably wrong and unfounded, from a social and economic point of view, that the only rationale that one can find is fulfilling lobbying from the incredibly powerful private schools (the schools + their alumni).

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VERY well said. I see the process in the same way.

Let me add that the most obvious solution (keep the boundaries, eliminate OOB and feeder rights for public schools which have failed to deliver system results, have families join forces with the newcomers from gentrification to demand and pursue change in their neighborhood schools. That's the only sound investment everyone should make, invest in the community and in your schools, rather than assign to the lottery odds the chances to succeed-- and not to succeed) is not being pursued for 3 reasons: 
- hidden lobby from the NW private school establishment 
- fake social propaganda 
- political calculations

The current OOB system has failed:[b] local schools in the EAST quadrant have been left for attendance by the most marginal of the marginals: American kids born from illegal immigrants (there's an estimated 25,000 illegal of them in DC, many with American kids, you know?)[/b], kids with single working parent (who cannot drive them to NW twice a day), kids with parents with early mornings shift who have no choice but to walk to the nearby school by themselves as early as in K, families with disabilities to attend, with elderly granparents to attend, with mental disabilities which require constant supervision... No one is talking about them. The focus is on the rights (or, better, the CHANCES) of those who try or make in to the better NW schools. These are the families who will be affected and annoyed in the short run by the cut in the OOB and feeder right. DCPS is focusing only on them, because they are voters... The most marginal ones, who do not even have other chances but to stay in the local schools... nobody cares, they are out of the picture because in most cases they are so left out that they are NOT EVEN VOTERS, or are illegal parents (of American children).

The only way to strenghten schools is the investment of the prospective and present parents , of the granparents, and of the neighborhood . "Gentrification" offers a unique opportunity and a fresh wave of your families with stronger background. Give these neigborhoods extra resource, investments, and support. But for God's sake make those families stay instead of shipping kids out and in twice a day.

A kick away the private school lobby, let them stay out of the debate. Private school shutting down due to the raise of DCPS should be our last concern , or no concern at all.
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The problem with your theory is that those particular students (American children of illegal immigrants) live in Ward 1 or the southern portion of Ward 4.  They are not in the easternmost portion of the city which is almost exclusively AA and poor.[/quote]

I do have ONE way in which private schools would benefit:  each college takes a certain # of kids from private and from public (assuming they are acceptable) in each "state."  If there were no adequate public school candidates from DC (because we have all moved to Md or Va), they would probably increase the private school quota.  That has to be what they did back in the day.  I remember the scandal over 20 years ago when the valedicatorian from Wilson was accepted to Georgetown and then it was discovered that he could not read.....[/quote]

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