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Okay, so how would it work if 80% of parents in the county (130,000 high school students) take their vouchers to Torrey Pines and Westview (combined capacity – 6,000 students)?[/quote]
I’m thinking a long the line of your second option, which is a lottery. Do you think parents who do not care about their kids’ education would take advantage of the voucher system? I personally think it would be the parents who do care that will take full advantage of it.
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How is the lottery any different than the choice system currently in place? You can apply to any school in the district – and they have some semi-random way of picking who gets to go. Once you get one child into the choiced school – the younger siblings can follow on. I know a couple of families that have choiced into LJHS and even more who upgraded to UCHS from Clairemont and Madison.
My kids go to Curie and they have classmates who have choiced in because they didn’t like the schools in Clairemont.
