Winco 's question has nothing to do with race.
It has to do with logistics. May people see a bumper sticker and don't comprehend the impact of the bumper sticker.
If the capacity "School C" is 1500 of students and school choice means that the school has to accept 1000 more students how would that work? That means "School C" now would have to support 2500 students.
The first question is transpiration?
- Since parents aren't zone for "School C" will they be required to provide transportation?
- Or will the school division provide transportation? If the school division, remember that transpiration will still have to be provided to students in "School A" and "School B" zones. So that means capital investment in busses and hiring more bus drivers (and many school systems are already struggling to hire bus drivers).
Then you have the logistics of accommodating 2500 students in a school built for 1500. So how would that work? Haul in temporary trailers? Those aren't free and are another capital expense.
Then you have instructional and support staff to attended to the influx of students. Well since "School A" went from 1500 students to 1000 students and "School B" went from 1500 students to 1000 students so that "School C" student population would increase, guess what? The school division is going to transfer excess staff from "School A" and "School B" to "School C" to address the overcrowding.
The other option is to just leave the staff where they are, meaning smaller class sizes in "School A" and "School B" and smaller class sizes leads to better individual instruction and performance increases. On the other hand by increasing student population in "School C" while holding staff size constant, you can reasonably assume that school performance will decrease based on over crowding.
The final option isn't really "School Choice" based on only the parents selection. It's School Choice based on capacity so as not to degrade the education of existing students. So let's say "School C" has a capacity of 1500 students but currently is projected to have 1350 in the upcoming year. That means parents apply for a transfer and then some mechanism is devised to select students. Maybe it's "first come, first served"? Maybe it's an application deadline and then students are selected by lottery? Either way, of 1000 parents wanting to move their student, 850 didn't get their choice because of capacity.
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So instead of throwing the race card, how about addressing ideas and how to actually make things work?
In the division my children attended there is a gifted school, parents are responsible for transportation if they are out of zone and a lottery is used for admission.
WW