This exemplifies everything wrong with private schooling. Lowell might not technically be private, but the reactions to switching away from a traditional admissions-based approach to a lottery are...
This exemplifies everything wrong with private schooling. Lowell might not technically be private, but the reactions to switching away from a traditional admissions-based approach to a lottery are functionally identical.
In a world where all educational opportunity is egalitarian, I'm ok with some level of academic requirements for higher-tier education. Because it's true that some students will seek top-tier education while others don't. But beyond those requirements? 100% lottery.
All lottery systems will trend toward population diversity over time. If suddenly you have eliminated all diversity by switching to a lottery....you've uncovered a severe lower-level problem that isn't rectified by artificial diversity at a higher level. Like peeling back a freshly-painted wall to find rotting support joists in a house.
If the lottery system is failing people, that means people benefiting from the lottery system have already been failed...if that makes sense.
Lowell will probably suffer, but only because they were able to pick and choose their students. Now they must provide that same high-class education without a guarantee that everyone starts at a high tier. Like a normal public school.
Semi-related:
This is how charter schools inflate their performance numbers. They skim off high-performing students from other public schools, siphoning their funding. Leaving the more expensive, average-to-poor performing students at the mercy of the now-defunded public school. (who will further get funding cuts due to poor student performance).
My aunt is an administrator at a public high school. She has relayed multiple horror stories about how charter schools pull in bright kids, and spit them out when their performance drops due to their poor schooling methods. The charter kids end up getting pulled back multiple years when re-entering public school, to the horror of their parents.
School choice (allowing charter schools to take public school tax dollars) is an abomination that needs banned.
This exemplifies everything wrong with private schooling. Lowell might not technically be private, but the reactions to switching away from a traditional admissions-based approach to a lottery are functionally identical.
In a world where all educational opportunity is egalitarian, I'm ok with some level of academic requirements for higher-tier education. Because it's true that some students will seek top-tier education while others don't. But beyond those requirements? 100% lottery.
All lottery systems will trend toward population diversity over time. If suddenly you have eliminated all diversity by switching to a lottery....you've uncovered a severe lower-level problem that isn't rectified by artificial diversity at a higher level. Like peeling back a freshly-painted wall to find rotting support joists in a house.
If the lottery system is failing people, that means people benefiting from the lottery system have already been failed...if that makes sense.
Lowell will probably suffer, but only because they were able to pick and choose their students. Now they must provide that same high-class education without a guarantee that everyone starts at a high tier. Like a normal public school.
Semi-related:
This is how charter schools inflate their performance numbers. They skim off high-performing students from other public schools, siphoning their funding. Leaving the more expensive, average-to-poor performing students at the mercy of the now-defunded public school. (who will further get funding cuts due to poor student performance).
My aunt is an administrator at a public high school. She has relayed multiple horror stories about how charter schools pull in bright kids, and spit them out when their performance drops due to their poor schooling methods. The charter kids end up getting pulled back multiple years when re-entering public school, to the horror of their parents.
School choice (allowing charter schools to take public school tax dollars) is an abomination that needs banned.