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Choosy parents go to forum

Neither of Jennifer Oliver's two children have ever been assigned to the schools they wanted to attend in Lee County. So Oliver, 39, enrolled her kids - now in fifth and eighth grades - in a charter school. Oliver, a Fort Myers resident, says the system isn't working. She joined about 50 other parents, teachers and students Thursday to voice their concerns over the county's current school-choice system at a public forum on the differences between school choice and neighborhood schools.