Note that there would be 0 places in desirable schools. When you dilute the good kids, the AP classes get cancelled. When bad kids are roaming about and starting fights in the middle of lessons, teaching turns into babysitting.

It's not a matter of money. DC spends more per student than nearly everybody else. It's a matter of student quality.

Personally I like vouchers and school choice, with a variety of school philosophies and admissions processes. But even random assignment across larger geographical areas than are common today would be break the link between housing and quasi-public school tuition.

Needless to say I reject burfog's claim that we currently have an efficient meritocracy and that the betas, deltas and gammas should just make peace with their stations in life.

Yes, that's one way to do it. That's how it works for a lot of charter schools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKTfaro96dg&feature=youtu.be...