To "choice into"

[Joel S. Berson]

Another possible origin?  Going back a long time in the New York City
public school system --apparently to the 1930s -- there have been a
few high schools (early ones were Bronx Science; Music and Art;
Stuyvesant) that students could choose to attend outside their
district -- provided they were selected (accepted) by those
schools.  I don't recall whether these schools were actually called
"choice schools", but it seems possible.

For today's system, see Wikipedia, "Specialized high schools in New York City".

Joel

At 5/8/2014 10:45 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

>I think the concept of "school choice" led to proponents being called
>"choicers", which recently has led to the verb form "to choice" for the act
>of choosing a school other than the geographically-assigned public school.
>
>AFAIK, "school choice" today refers to the wide variety of alternative
>schools, from voucher systems to magnet schools to home schooling. It will
>mean different things in different states.
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>DanG
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>On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Lisa Galvin <lisagal23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > I came across this today while transcribing an interview with a parent=2C
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> > hen asked where their child attended elementary school:  "We have choiced
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> > nto (name of school)."=20
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> > I knew we had what are known as "choice schools" (the exact definition
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> > l eludes me but I think they are schools  in the public school system here
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> > in the US that have specific programs or offerings)=2C but I wasn't clear
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> > rom the context of the interview if this term referred to the act of
> > gettin=
> > g your child to attend an official "choice school"=2C or if this is now a
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> > eneral term (among parents and educators?) for getting your child into any
> > =
> > public school you wish them to attend.=20
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> > Has anyone heard or read this? So far Google isn't revealing much. I came
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> > cross a few online discussion threads that contained the usage=2C but
> > that'=
> > s about it.
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> > Lisa Galvin
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