I did not want to continue gambling with my childrens' educational outcomes via De Blasio's opaque/random NYC DOE. Crossing my fingers for Pre-K and K was enough nonsense. For example, putting our actual first choices halfway down our preference lists.<p>So, now I pay transparent /deterministic property taxes in a town in NJ.<p>I have only a small number of educational outcome samples to draw for my children. Consequently, I pay for the higher Sharpe NJ strategy instead of blindly accepting high variance hexadecimal dice rolls from the NYC DOE.<p>Remember, when trying to obtain the best possible outcomes for your children, if you aren't paying in money then you are paying in time. Witness how much effort went into this article and how many very industrious parents will study/internalize it to try to obtain marginally better outcomes for their children next year. You are always competing in expenditures, just with the NYC DOE it's your time versus other parents' time.
My college GF was a childhood immigrant to NYC, and by education lottery was accepted to one of their most-prestigious/science public schools (for HS).<p>This giant act of fate set her up with an education that eventually led to full-tuition scholarship and then (full-circle) she donates her talents to the foundation which made all her miracles possible.<p>But the randomness of such a system just baffled my public-education-in-Texas brains, where you go to the school where your residence is zoned [or private school].
(2021).<p>It might make sense to link to the most recent (2023) survey results instead, since relevant changes were made: <a href="https://medium.com/algorithms-in-the-wild/results-from-the-2023-nyc-school-admission-lottery-surveys-260acc6fa4e6" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/algorithms-in-the-wild/results-from-the-2...</a>