I joined a neighborhood (gentrified Brooklyn) Facebook group for parents who are trying to navigate the open house/application/waitlist system for *public* schools. It's just a whole year of slow-motion train wreck.
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they are now speculating about whether the fact that a family who got into their second choice (off waiting list) last year may have been favored by fact mom was going through cancer treatments at the time.
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I hate hate hate hate non-market systems. Bowing and scraping to a king is bad enough (which is why I'm not a paleoreactionary). Bowing and scraping to some fourth rate functionary is shit which I will not do (which is why I live in exile, far from the lights of Rome, i guess)
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