The vote met with tremendous opposition, and prompted both D'Alessandro and Evans to say they felt critically undermined by the school board's decision.
Students and parents at the meeting wore silver ribbons to mark themselves as opponents of choice.
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The house system was widely believed to create inequities between students of different races, as seen by dramatic differences in student success across houses.
"With the old system, it was de facto segregation," said Daniel B. Kahn, a CRLS senior. "Choice is not something that needs to be in a restructured school."
--Staff writer Nicole B. Usher can be reached at usher@fas.harvard.edu.