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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People should get over things from years past. Focus on investigation of current corruption.[/quote]

This is the most ridiculous comment ever.  As if things from years past don't affect the present and future, both fairly and unfairly?  The still-recent past is relevant in conversations like this.  If CM had been able to do a lottery at all (which they said they did), there's absolutely zero reason they couldn't have made it public.  They had space for open houses... they had space for a public lottery (even if they needed to do limited seating).  It was a puzzling decision that will always smack of unfair practices, but a year or two into the common lottery and I don't think many will be talking about it in the future.[/quote]

OK, 01:40.  What would you like to see happen?  Just more license to gripe online? Open up a spot for your kid?  Jail time for administrators?
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I'm the PP you're addressing.  What I would like to see happen is that schools and their supporters be honest and realistic about how the choices they make affect parents' and the public's perceptions of the school.  No one needs "license" to gripe online - in case you haven't noticed, there is nothing stopping griping.  But these posts are not griping, they are simply stating facts about a very questionable practice at a school.  That practice is not in place now, but a poster said that it had been "debunked" that CM cherry picked students, and most of these posts are just making the point that that is BS, nothing is debunked about it, and when you don't do an open public lottery and you don't post your admit list and wait list publicly either, it just heightens the suspicion - justifiably so - that you are up to something shady.

Your posts trying to make everyone feel crazy for believing CM didn't do a public lottery are not working, mainly because you are dealing with several people who dealt directly with the school on this issue.  They didn't do a public lottery, in more than one year.  I notice the poster who said they still had the email from CM telling them where/when the public lottery would be has not pasted the email on here.  Obviously because they were making it up.

Lastly, as far as wanting to see this review of actual facts lead to opening a spot for my kid?  No thanks.  We realize we were lucky to get in to CM in a past year given how many people want to get in, but we declined, and we've never thought twice about it.  Posters like you remind me that that was the right decision for our family.[/quote]

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