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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If you get a fucked up lottery draw then your ranking doesn't even matter.[/quote]

Very true. And if you're fucked for one school, you are fucked for all schools, automatically shunted down the entire line of popular ones to a "safety."

What would be the effect of having the school's lotteries all be individual? Is the problem a lack of ability to centrally administer it? Can't the charter board just run a lottery for each school? That seems more fair to me than the luck of the draw one number for all... and I say that as someone who has been lucky with low number draws (relatively lucky).

Doesn't the current system just sort of enforce the crazy popularity contest with the HRCS's? 
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This was debated back and forth when DC started going down the unified lottery path. It would certainly make sense to try and match families with their preferred schools rather than run everyone's number and then based on that draw, plug children into schools on their list regardless of how highly the rated it. Does it seem unfair that a family who ranks a school #12 gets a spot while another who ranked the same school #1 gets a 100+ waitlist number? No, not really. But DC is pretty happy with the process they now have in place because it's tons more efficient and transparent than it used to be, so I don't see it changing anytime soon. Not to mention, I'm sure it was a very significant investment ($) to create. The one thing I wish is this...I wish DC would stop touting the percentage of children who were matched with one of their top 3 schools. It's such a bogus number because it is weighted heavily by ECE and inboundary DCPS families who got spots at their neighborhood schools. Take those out and show us how everyone without some sort of preference fared.  [/quote]

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