What would be a good reason for distributing students based on luck (which is what I gathered from the article), versus having everyone take a standardized test and then assigning pupils to schools based on their performance in their test?
The test approach seems the fairest to me, as a grade A student should have a higher priority of getting into a top school than a lower grade student.
Contrast this with having a high achieving student not getting into the school of his choice due to sheer bad luck, and I do not see much benefit from the lottery system.
The test approach seems the fairest to me, as a grade A student should have a higher priority of getting into a top school than a lower grade student.
Contrast this with having a high achieving student not getting into the school of his choice due to sheer bad luck, and I do not see much benefit from the lottery system.