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Re:What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity... by lacker on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:54PM (#18059238)
The Boston public schools don't operate on the principle that you go to your local school. Kids get sent to quasi-random schools so that you don't have the good school in the rich neighborhood and the bad school in the poor neighborhood. Instead you get a whole bunch of medium quality schools. Also, this means that children are very likely to not live near their school at all.
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Re:What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity... by ahmadss on Monday September 24, 2018 @03:07PM (#18060439)
do you at least get to stick with one school until you've completed the respective grades in that school? also - do siblings end up in the same schools? or are they also randomly assigned?
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Re:What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity... by cwmma on Monday September 24, 2018 @03:54PM (#18060879)
For high school at least it's like applying to collage, you take a standardized test and send out applications which some schools (Boston Latin) being more desirable then others.
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