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This was a very interesting article to me as I am currently looking at high schools for my child. Growing up I went to the high school of the school district of my area, and was not aware there were such differences and opinions. Now living in a different state, a child going to private school and having to apply for different high schools I was unaware of how the admissions process can affect class scores. It does seem to make sense reading other comments with additional references that parent leadership and child determination to do well in school would help overall grades vs the lottery system where parents want children to go to a good school but the kids have no interest.