In 2020, Lowell High School switched from selective admissions to a randomized, lottery-like system. This fall, the first class of lottery freshmen arrived on campus like the setup for an odd experiment: What happens when you suddenly let anybody in?
Last November, a lawsuit filed by the Lowell Alumni Association and others managed to invalidate the school board’s vote, on a procedural matter. Yet the judge stressed that the board was free to restore its change, and in December the superintendent of schools put through a resolution that the lottery would continue at least until next year.
As the period ended, she watched Lowell’s first lottery class dispersing back into the maelstrom of the hall.Before the eighteen-twenties, white American boys and girls were educated through a mixture of homeschooling, tuition schooling, church schooling, and tutors. Life was largely agricultural; book learning hardly mattered. That changed during the early nineteenth century, when booming industrialism called for new specialists, and inequalities intensified across explosive growth.
The problem is that special access is the opposite of what public school is supposed to be about. This puzzle has been worked at like a Rubik’s Cube for years. In 1961, during the so-called Battle of Lowell, the superintendent sought to make Lowell—then the only high school in the United States to have produced two Nobel laureates—mostly a neighborhood school, arguing that its citywide application process was bad for equality because it made other schools de-facto second rate.
“As we walk, notice the kids, and who’s sitting together,” Adee Horn, who leads Lowell’s Peer Resources program, told me as we crossed between buildings at lunch. Asian American kids were gathered mostly with other Asian American kids; white students with other white students. “Lowell is a very diverse school, but there’s a lot of segregation within that diversity.
Before the lottery, Asian Americans made up half of Lowell’s freshman class. The western side of San Francisco has long been a transpacific node, a place where it is easy to find a properor the latest Taiwanese snacks, and one of Lowell’s functions has been to serve as a diasporic merging lane. Asian immigration has been growing in the U.S.
“Remember, what can we say about the level of easiness on this reading?” Johnson asked one Friday early in the semester. She doesn’t love the required world-history textbook, and adds her own reading—today, an article by the scholar Lynda Shaffer that had appeared in the“Uh—it’s graduate level?” he said.
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