ALL schools should pick randomly from all applicants. I mean, honestly, I don't feel as passionately about this for colleges, but private preschools or kinderg

ALL schools should pick randomly from all applicants. I mean, honestly, I don't feel as passionately about this for colleges, but private preschools or kindergartens that select kids based on anything is super f-ed up and kind of enrages me. The gradual defunding of public education in the US as more and more people move to elite districts or private school (white flight) is bad enough. Then excluding any kids who are slower learners, more hyperactive, who have less advantages at home (the kids who actually need great school the most) even if they have the $$ is borderline Nazi-party-bad it is so vile. Generally my take on this is: (1) all schools should select kids at random from applicants and (2) private schools should charge selected kids based on what those families can afford, up to their full tuition which in the Bay Area averages over $30K/year, (3) funding for every school should come from national or at least state level so travesties like Piedmont can't exist explicitly for the purpose of robbing poorer kids, 2 blocks away, from having decent schools (and parks, that's another subject). Anything else is hyper regressive toward children. F-that! (sorry to hijack the topic, but this is a subject I deal with a lot and royally pisses me off)