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You seem to think that this is about winning and losing.  The law doesn't really care about winning and losing.  [b]The law is concerned about establishing equal treatment of all people under the law so that no group is unduly favored or unduly burdened by a system.  [/b]That is how the law defines a win.  I understand why you feel the way that you do and why you feel that creating another school on the Hill would have downsides. You are not wrong about some of the downsides. I am simply pointing out another angle from which to see the problem.  Creating a new and unique enrollment system for this one school (or really these two schools since the city-wide lottery nature of CHM is the same) in such a way that does not comport with the DCPS definition of a "specialty school, program, or academy" creates a legal problem. Giving OOB w/proximity preference is not the only way to solve this problem if that outcome is objectionable to DCPS.  It can return to an interview system at CHM or create an interview system at SWS so that students likely to uniquely benefit from the program are admitted.  This would be akin to the beginning of a magnet school program in DC, something that I think that many of us would very much welcome.  But, a city-wide lottery that doesn't have another selection criteria does not satisfy the criteria that is listed in this part of the law on its own to establish programs such as SWS or CHM as specialty schools. I have to imagine that the lawyers who work at DCPS are well aware of this and are working on this problem right now. It will be interesting to see what information is released when we start getting information about the coming changes.  Until we have concrete information from DCPS about what is to come, we are all just doing speculative, if interesting, mind exercises about the what ifs.   [/quote]
This is where I get hung up. How does a citywide draw unduly favor or burden anyone? If a school is not an in-bounds school, then giving proximity preference essentially favors certain students. Proximity preference works for in-bounds schools, because the presumption is that in-bounds students had first dibs to go there. This I think is much more of an issue than whether or not Montessori or Reggio could be considered specialty schools.[/quote]

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