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How long has the lottery existed? Hopefully in a reasonable amount of time, it will cause the differences between good and bad public schools to disappear?

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• chrisseaton 7y ago
  This is only the case if the schools are bad because of the students going to them.
  • badfrog 7y ago
    > This is only the case if the schools are bad because of the students going to them. Presumably the good schools got good because they're in rich neighborhoods where the parents pour time and money into the schools. If their kids are going to a wider variety of schools now, the rich parents will have incentive to make all the schools good.
    • scarmig 7y ago
      What instead happens is rich parents either move out of San Francisco to the burbs, or send their kids to private school. And so San Francisco ends up both with the lowest population of children of any major city and one of the highest private school enrollment rates in the country (~20%).
    • golemiprague 7y ago
      You don't need time and money to make a good school, what you need is pupils that are encouraged to study by their parents and that are not absolutely poor. We all know which group of people has a study culture and which doesn't and responsible parents make sure their kids are raised among those people who want to study. Simple as that, all the rest is a smoke screen for this basic fact of life.