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I was with you until you revealed yourself to be an idiot in the second paragraph.  
 
This isn't about YY families; you're fruitlessly complaining about one of the most diverse public schools in the entire city.  Furthermore, even if pigs flew and you were correct, who in Chinatown do you suppose is going to give up a gorgeous 40,000 sq. ft. facility + 3 acre lot for an outdoor nature center and classrooms?

Neighborhood preference sounds good only if it's an opt-in situation.  
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Not idiotic to think in terms of neighborhood charter preferences benefitting Hill families in particular -just talk to parents IB for Ludlow-Taylor, Payne and Miner but landed waaay down the waiting lists for YY, SWS, Logan Montesorri, 2 Rivers etc.

[b]An opt-in situation meaning what? [/b]Charter school boards decide if they want the neighorhood preference?   Surely that's how Wells will frame the law.  He's among the pols who doen't want to fix neighborhood schools the only way you can outside a few high-SES enclaves (Brent District,  north Lincoln Park area zoned for Maury).  That is to stay stop busing in Ward 8 kids in droves, stop letting in PG County kids and add GT test-in programs.   Schools could also be allowed to decide admissions policies, e.g. preferential admissions for native speakers of target languages like DCPS uses.   But no, all that would work too well.

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Meaning the individual school makes the decision whether or not to offer neighborhood preference (along with sibling preference, employee's child preference, language preference, etc.).  Different schools already have different preferences, this would be one more option they could legally offer (but are under no obligation to).  LAMB currently has different lotteries for English vs. Spanish speakers.  If they had to factor in neighborhood preferences, it could make a dent in the language balance.  Yu Ying has students from all over the city.  Neighborhood preference would significantly favor stable, middle and upper-middle class families in Brookland, at the expense of less-advantaged students in Anacostia.  If Latin were forced to have neighborhood preference, then some students who are already inbounds for Deal would now, be at the top of the pile for Latin too.  Not exactly the results Wells or anyone else wants to design the law.  So, LAMB, Yu Ying, Latin, and other schools that draw from all over the city have no reason to want to opt-in to that situation.  Law of unintended consequences.  But, there are schools, like KIPP which locates in lower SES neighborhoods but takes all comers might want to consider opting-in, as it suits their mission.[/quote]

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