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either live in Ramsey or have a sibling currently attending PACT would have no chance for admission. 14. If plaintiffs' suggested applications process was followed, in which a Town Preference for Ramsey residents was applied, and the Sibling Preference was restricted to applicants withP ACT siblings. who are Ramsey residents, the entire kindergarten class would be filled by 36 of the 50 Ramsey resident applicants. Under. that scenario, the class would be Ramsey-resident only, plaintiffs son would have a 72% chance of admission (36/50), and a sibling of a current PACT student would have no chance for admission. In addition, there is no reason to believe that the reference to. sibling preference is in any way tied to the town or proximity preference within Minnesota Statute S l24D.lO. 15. The most likely long-term consequence if PACT were required to expand the Town Preference to add a preference for residents of the City of Ramsey would be that the school would only be available to Ramsey residents. 16. Since plaintiff requests PACT's policy to be modified to bar siblings of current students who are not Ramsey residents from taking advantage of the Sibling Preference, if PACT is required to apply the Town Preference as Plaintiff suggests, then families with students attending PACT for the 2008-09 school year in every grade will be affected, not just those seeking in emoUment in kindergarten, 17. If the lottery were to be postponed until this interpretation is resolved, it will cause undue harm to many families with students wishing to enter the kindergarten as well as 6th through 12th grades for the 2008-2009 school year, since there are no other schools within the Ramsey city limits that offer instruction in those grade levels. Families who had relied on the Sibling Preference will be forced to emoll their children elsewhere, away from their siblings. -1 602153181V5 4