Our local school hasn't proved particularly good for J, so we knew we could apply to the S school district (the thing that is annoying is we live in S, but are in the R school district, whose schools are unfortunately not so good).
The S schools are charter schools; if you live in the school district you apply by lottery in March. Any spare spaces are then filled by a public lottery. Isn't that totally weird? A lottery to get a school placement? My hubby and me can't understand it. But the school districts are apparently so full, they allocate children to schools via a lottery system - no FIFO queue.
So I tried to drop off the lottery applications today, and the schools we requested transfer to are so full they aren't holding a public lottery this year. Argh!
This is all so BS. The amount of tax we pay should guarantee a reasonable school - not first rate, just reasonable. Not one with way below average test scores (only 40% of the students in grade 3 pass the English test).
I want my tax money back!
Monday, April 28, 2008
Public school lotterys .. argh!!
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Excellent Blog Connie, I am sure a tons of people will find this helpful!
That *is* really weird about the lottery, esp that it applies even if you live in the school district. Scary stuff. Presumably it happens because it's more important to give tax breaks to billionaires than to educate kids?
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