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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What on earth do you like about a city wide high school random lottery?

The only way that could work is if they made Wilson, for example, an application only high school to rival Thomas Jefferson or Richard Montgomery-IB in MoCo, with the programming to back it up.

Or triple the size of SWW (9-12 only, no Francis-Stevens).

If there was a viable, challenging high school, that might work.[/quote]

Tripling the size of SWW could hurt the program which is successful because of its small size. In Arlington, one proposal to help middle and high school overcrowding is to double the size of H-B Woodlawn, which is similar to SWW. The H-B community is fighting that proposal tooth and nail.

Why not make a portion of Wilson (and Deal) an admissions-based magnet school for OOB students? Dunbar is looking at becoming a magnet, so lets expand the discussion. What's the current capacity at Wilson? B-CC will soon expand to just under 3,000 students with a planned addition. A larger Wilson could serve IB students and OOB magnet students. The downside of such a plan is that it could leave out students at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum that don't meet admissions standards. Diversity might take a hit. [/quote]

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