# Selective Magnet School in Virginia moving towards a lottery system **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 6, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347 "2020-10-06T15:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 698
**Author:** ![ZosterSandstorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e0b2c6/32.png) [@ZosterSandstorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZosterSandstorm)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347/698 "2021-01-12T17:03:09Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > They’ll probably cancel the exam anyway due to Covid. Either way it’s messing kids around who don’t know whether to prepare or not. Which is in line with the seething contempt that the teachers and administrators in Fairfax have demonstrated for these students - when they’re willing to go on record calling them invading, un-American nerds who do underhanded things like study harder to get ahead, they’re obviously willing to inconvenience them or cause some anxiety. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347)._