<p>And bad luck for my colleagues’ children. I actually asked myself, a la Pizzagirl, why do I care about students I only know peripherally? And yet, I do.</p>
<p>I thought of another factor, involving housing prices–younger families who are concerned about education have in some cases been priced out of the local school district, and have tended to congregate in others. It’s ironic, really, because we were priced out of the formerly “educationally dominant” district.</p>
<p>To the extent that factor is operating, I am all for “fresh blood from fresh schools.” I am also in favor of colleges admitting strong students from schools they have rarely drawn from, before. However, I would not be in favor of the thought, “Oh, we’ve taken students from X Public Schools for multiple years running, and I am getting bored with seeing students from X. Let’s look elsewhere.”</p>
<p>In one more year, the students at the end of the current pattern will never have been in the same school building at the same time as the students in the “lucky” group. I am not in favor of carry-over effects from past students to whom current students are unrelated.</p>