International Baccalaureate at Eastern?

[Anonymous]

Many of Eastern students have been accepted and will attend many of the universities that their teacher base attended. The Eastern 2015 graduates were also heavily sort after by HBCU of which those colleges offered full-rides. I do believe the majority of DCPS recognized Top Ten student body that graduated from the various schools are most - likely going to attend HBCU. I do believe Penn, Princeton, Harvard and Yale may have secured one minority each from DCPS. I honestly believe their acceptance was in part due to the community - service rendered. I am told that all of the Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship students are AA.

I would tread lightly, be warned, if someone is going to bash the HBCU... I wouldn't do it.

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Does someone honestly believe that a high-school that's majority all AA that they are doomed? Really, I am reading these post that is pro SAT, makes me wonder of this wasn't a ploy to put AA in a sense of panic? Then to have readers believe that their education is not worth a hill of beans because their classmates are not white. Guess what, their principal, Chancellor, custodians, cafeteria workers, counselors, DC Cap advisors, coaches and parents are AA. So, when would the need for a great white hope be warranted? Again, a black child needs to be exposed to whites in his/her pursuit of free public education...that's gall.

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Anonymous wrote:Does someone honestly believe that a high-school that's majority all AA that they are doomed? Really, I am reading these post that is pro SAT, makes me wonder of this wasn't a ploy to put AA in a sense of panic? Then to have readers believe that their education is not worth a hill of beans because their classmates are not white. Guess what, their principal, Chancellor, custodians, cafeteria workers, counselors, DC Cap advisors, coaches and parents are AA. So, when would the need for a great white hope be warranted? Again, a black child needs to be exposed to whites in his/her pursuit of free public education...that's gall.

I'm always amused by these, "DC needs us to improve their schools. They'd better get with the program if they want me to send my white snowflake in there to save the day." But I don't think the attitude comes from believing black kids need to be exposed to them. Instead, they believe their children's scores are needed to improve the school. Truth is, their little snowflakes and their scores will likely not be any more competitive than the fiercely motivated Avery Coffeys of the DC system.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been proven that white and Asian college applicants currently need SAT scores at least 250 and 450 points higher than AA applicants respectively to achieve similar admissions outcomes.

I conclude that my half white-half Asian family can't afford to mess around in any of these so-so DC pubilc high schools, other than maybe Walls and the BASIS juvenile detention facility. We're not IB for Wilson.

This is a national issue. It has nothing to do with DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Where'd everybody go?

Seems the thread totally petered out the moment some posters (who admitted they could not fathom DC had ever sent a kid to an ivy, much less have one accepted by several) realized motivated AA students in DC CAN be competitive nationally.

Someone get those posters their smelling salts so they can rejoin the discussion.

[Anonymous]

PS: Banneker had a 100% college acceptance rate this year with $20 million in scholarships awarded to the graduating class. (Or was it $10 million? I'm almost certain it was 20.)

I'm not sure of last year's stats, but I'm certain they were equally impressive.

I'm so shocked DCUM posters are not aware of these types of things. Instead of being turned off to lower than national SAT scores, I'm quite impressed what those kids are able to do despite difficult circumstances in many cases.

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Anonymous wrote:Not buying that expensive test prep is the key to success, or that any DC public school is producing students with 8 Ivy League acceptances. Such stories make the front pages of newspapers of national record. And I've heard more than enough excuses for Banneker's unimpressive scores.

I grew up in a low-income family (qualifying for free lunch through MS, though my proud immigrant parents wouldn't accept the food). We couldn't afford SAT prep classes and I worked in the family business from grade school, yet was a PSAT National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist in NY, a state with one of the country's highest PSAT cut-off scores. My younger sister was also a semifinalist, and as was my lower middle-class spouse and her brother.

What I had that the Banneker and Eastern kids lack were mostly high SES white and Asian classmates. Frequent visits to their homes taught me how mainstream upper middle-class Americans live - with reliable cars, backyard pools, and trips to Disneyland and the Grand Canyon. I wanted in and asked classmates' professional parents how to get there.

DCPS, please end apartheid education on Capitol Hill past elementary school and Stuart-Hobson. Find a way to integrate Eastern in five years or less. The half-baked IB Diploma Program pretty clearly isn't going to do it.

For one, most Banneker and Eastern students have very highly educated teachers from the upper middle class who serve as role models to them everyday. Have you seen the credentials of some of these DC teachers???? They are teaching and guiding students on how to get into the upper middle class. Hence, a graduating class with 100% college acceptances and millions in scholarships. I'd say those Banneker kids are on their way, wouldn't you?

No one's segregating those schools. Whites and Asians have--like you--looked at SAT scores (or whatever) and decided they don't want their children to attend the school. Welp! Seems like those college-bound kids are doing just fine anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where'd everybody go?

Seems the thread totally petered out the moment some posters (who admitted they could not fathom DC had ever sent a kid to an ivy, much less have one accepted by several) realized motivated AA students in DC CAN be competitive nationally.

Someone get those posters their smelling salts so they can rejoin the discussion.

You totally missed the point being made and will continue to read what you want into comments. It gets tiring and pointless.

[Anonymous]

Yes, tiring and pointless. Segregated high schools aren't optimal in this highly diverse city and country in this century, period.

[Anonymous]

It's going to be interesting to see how DCPS and the politicians react when the in-boundary percentage at the rebooted Eastern starts to drop, and continues to drop for years to come. They seem to have tunnel vision on the issue, with the in-boundary percentage currently a reassuring 63%. Flash forward six or eight years, and few of us on the Hill be surprised to see an in-boundary percentage at Eastern in the 30s or 40s. You just don't hear gentrifiers who pay close attention to what's going on in public schools, talking about planning to use Eastern, even if their kids are little. Meanwhile, Wilson's in boundary percentage, which has ticked up into the high 50s, seems set to rise year after year, into the 60s, 70s and 80s....

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Anonymous wrote:It's been proven that white and Asian college applicants currently need SAT scores at least 250 and 450 points higher than AA applicants respectively to achieve similar admissions outcomes.

I conclude that my half white-half Asian family can't afford to mess around in any of these so-so DC pubilc high schools, other than maybe Walls and the BASIS juvenile detention facility. We're not IB for Wilson.

This is a national issue. It has nothing to do with DCPS.

But... but... Isn't DCPS part of national picture?

[Anonymous]

It has a lot to do with choices of high schools for parents. It's one thing for the top AA students at Banneker or Eastern to score in the 600s on SATs, which most seem to do, another thing altogether for my Asian children (with a distinctively Asian surname). No reason for them to apply to elite college without 700s - they'll surely be rejected out of hand. If a DCPS HS doesn't have a track record of delivering high SAT scores, much better for us to look at BASIS, privates or the burbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, tiring and pointless. Segregated high schools aren't optimal in this highly diverse city and country in this century, period.

DCPS is not segregating the schools. White families and the few Asain families in this city have decided to self-segregate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's going to be interesting to see how DCPS and the politicians react when the in-boundary percentage at the rebooted Eastern starts to drop, and continues to drop for years to come. They seem to have tunnel vision on the issue, with the in-boundary percentage currently a reassuring 63%. Flash forward six or eight years, and few of us on the Hill be surprised to see an in-boundary percentage at Eastern in the 30s or 40s. You just don't hear gentrifiers who pay close attention to what's going on in public schools, talking about planning to use Eastern, even if their kids are little. Meanwhile, Wilson's in boundary percentage, which has ticked up into the high 50s, seems set to rise year after year, into the 60s, 70s and 80s....

What does Wilson offer that Eastern does not? Other than higher SES cohort, are not the subjects the same at both schools. It appears that Eastern offers more, with both AP and IB. Therefore, it must be the majority/minority that turns you away. What should DCPS do with these brown and black kids to make the white parents comfortable sending their kiddies there? Perhaps ship them all across the river so that you can be comfortable.

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Anonymous wrote:Eastern have white students attending but they were in the special ed population. Let the record add show their parents transferred them in out during the last four years. Hell, they treated Eastern and Wilson as some type of alternative learning component. Even the Asian-American and Hispanic students weren't without their challenges, so diversity was/is at Eastern. I don't think a child who lives in a city like DC not coming from a diverse high-school is such an abnormal situation. Hell have of the new demographics in this city just became acquainted with AA themselves as adults.

Yikes. Hope you don't teach there; this post is barely English.

The grammar wasn't great. I suspect that autocorrect created some of PP's problem. However, I'm pretty sure you comprehended the content and intent of the post. It was pretty sound.

No,no. This is Word Salad not autocorrect. Alternate reality when it comes to Eastern. Remember the school may not want you!

Is my beloved Word Salad back? I've missed you.