Walls admissions requirements for 2021 Applicants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new data is out and it looks like 54 seats by June, which is consistent with prior years.

Anyone have any intel on whether they will be bringing the test back this coming year? I have a current Walls student and a rising 8th grader and am following closely.

They seem comfortable with the @#$% show this year. Named underwhelming AP principal instead of a real search. Demand only exists as reflection of poor alternatives throughout DCPS. There are many more qualified students than those well served by HS options. Walls benefits from its students more than its students benefit from Walls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new data is out and it looks like 54 seats by June, which is consistent with prior years.

Anyone have any intel on whether they will be bringing the test back this coming year? I have a current Walls student and a rising 8th grader and am following closely.

They seem comfortable with the @#$% show this year. Named underwhelming AP principal instead of a real search. Demand only exists as reflection of poor alternatives throughout DCPS. There are many more qualified students than those well served by HS options. Walls benefits from its students more than its students benefit from Walls.

Trogisch should be brought back. He ran a tight ship.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new data is out and it looks like 54 seats by June, which is consistent with prior years.

Anyone have any intel on whether they will be bringing the test back this coming year? I have a current Walls student and a rising 8th grader and am following closely.

They seem comfortable with the @#$% show this year. Named underwhelming AP principal instead of a real search. Demand only exists as reflection of poor alternatives throughout DCPS. There are many more qualified students than those well served by HS options. Walls benefits from its students more than its students benefit from Walls.

Trogisch should be brought back. He ran a tight ship.

Hahahahaha I know this must be a joke if you’ve ever set foot in that school. But that did make me laugh!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The new data is out and it looks like 54 seats by June, which is consistent with prior years.

Anyone have any intel on whether they will be bringing the test back this coming year? I have a current Walls student and a rising 8th grader and am following closely.

They seem comfortable with the @#$% show this year. Named underwhelming AP principal instead of a real search. Demand only exists as reflection of poor alternatives throughout DCPS. There are many more qualified students than those well served by HS options. Walls benefits from its students more than its students benefit from Walls.

Trogisch should be brought back. He ran a tight ship.

Hahahahaha I know this must be a joke if you’ve ever set foot in that school. But that did make me laugh!

Most are reporting that Walls is in much worse shape now that he's gone. You, seemingly an insider, disagree?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new data is out and it looks like 54 seats by June, which is consistent with prior years.

Anyone have any intel on whether they will be bringing the test back this coming year? I have a current Walls student and a rising 8th grader and am following closely.

They seem comfortable with the @#$% show this year. Named underwhelming AP principal instead of a real search. Demand only exists as reflection of poor alternatives throughout DCPS. There are many more qualified students than those well served by HS options. Walls benefits from its students more than its students benefit from Walls.

Trogisch should be brought back. He ran a tight ship.

Hahahahaha I know this must be a joke if you’ve ever set foot in that school. But that did make me laugh!

I am very serious.

Bring back Trogisch. Now.

[Anonymous]

The incoming Walls students i know range from very smart/motivated to completely mediocre. There was no test this year and everyone with a 3.6 or above interviewed. A 3.6 is reasonable in a typical year but last
year any student with a pulse had a 3.6 due to Covid grading. Some of the kids I know who got into Walls are the types who skip 50% of their classes by wandering the halls (i.e. not academically oriented AT ALL).
So it will be interesting to see how this cohort does.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new data is out and it looks like 54 seats by June, which is consistent with prior years.

Anyone have any intel on whether they will be bringing the test back this coming year? I have a current Walls student and a rising 8th grader and am following closely.

They seem comfortable with the @#$% show this year. Named underwhelming AP principal instead of a real search. Demand only exists as reflection of poor alternatives throughout DCPS. There are many more qualified students than those well served by HS options. Walls benefits from its students more than its students benefit from Walls.

Trogisch should be brought back. He ran a tight ship.

Hahahahaha I know this must be a joke if you’ve ever set foot in that school. But that did make me laugh!

Most are reporting that Walls is in much worse shape now that he's gone. You, seemingly an insider, disagree?

This is an anonymous website so there is no way to prove who I am but I am quite knowledgeable about Walls, it’s priorities and how it is run as a school. You can choose to believe me or not. Trogisch has some good qualities as a leader but the school is the opposite of a tight ship.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The new data is out and it looks like 54 seats by June, which is consistent with prior years.

Anyone have any intel on whether they will be bringing the test back this coming year? I have a current Walls student and a rising 8th grader and am following closely.

They seem comfortable with the @#$% show this year. Named underwhelming AP principal instead of a real search. Demand only exists as reflection of poor alternatives throughout DCPS. There are many more qualified students than those well served by HS options. Walls benefits from its students more than its students benefit from Walls.

Trogisch should be brought back. He ran a tight ship.

Hahahahaha I know this must be a joke if you’ve ever set foot in that school. But that did make me laugh!

Most are reporting that Walls is in much worse shape now that he's gone. You, seemingly an insider, disagree?

This is an anonymous website so there is no way to prove who I am but I am quite knowledgeable about Walls, it’s priorities and how it is run as a school. You can choose to believe me or not. Trogisch has some good qualities as a leader but the school is the opposite of a tight ship.

"Is" or "Was?" Is the school better run now that Trogisch is gone, worse run, or about the same?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are other application HS.

Banneker and Tech are no competition.

Oh you mean for white families afraid of minorities, yes I guess not.

Not PP but I looked into tech and the test scores are terrible.

Banneker's are great. I would do that in a heartbeat for my kids if they get in.

The 10th grade PARCC is a breeze, low bar to clear with passing scores of 4. But Banneker's SAT scores are only a tad above the national average, year after year, low 500s. Not great.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are other application HS.

Banneker and Tech are no competition.

Oh you mean for white families afraid of minorities, yes I guess not.

Not PP but I looked into tech and the test scores are terrible.

Banneker's are great. I would do that in a heartbeat for my kids if they get in.

Banneker isn’t good for boys, especially those with IEPs. Pass.

Banneker is great for very smart boys not really into sports. No DCPS school is good with IEP students, be honest!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are other application HS.

Banneker and Tech are no competition.

Oh you mean for white families afraid of minorities, yes I guess not.

Not PP but I looked into tech and the test scores are terrible.

Banneker's are great. I would do that in a heartbeat for my kids if they get in.

The 10th grade PARCC is a breeze, low bar to clear with passing scores of 4. But Banneker's SAT scores are only a tad above the national average, year after year, low 500s. Not great.

This argument is always trotted out. You need to do more research on the history and function of the SATs. Scores are highly correlated to race/HHI.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are other application HS.

Banneker and Tech are no competition.

Oh you mean for white families afraid of minorities, yes I guess not.

Not PP but I looked into tech and the test scores are terrible.

Banneker's are great. I would do that in a heartbeat for my kids if they get in.

The 10th grade PARCC is a breeze, low bar to clear with passing scores of 4. But Banneker's SAT scores are only a tad above the national average, year after year, low 500s. Not great.

This argument is always trotted out. You need to do more research on the history and function of the SATs. Scores are highly correlated to race/HHI.

I get so tired of this crap. Correlation does not equal causation. Literally every globally competitive first-world country uses the same standard of testing to identify and groom its top caliber talent. You run with this intellectual hogwash, and you and your "allies" are going to run this country into the ground.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are other application HS.

Banneker and Tech are no competition.

Oh you mean for white families afraid of minorities, yes I guess not.

Not PP but I looked into tech and the test scores are terrible.

Banneker's are great. I would do that in a heartbeat for my kids if they get in.

The 10th grade PARCC is a breeze, low bar to clear with passing scores of 4. But Banneker's SAT scores are only a tad above the national average, year after year, low 500s. Not great.

This argument is always trotted out. You need to do more research on the history and function of the SATs. Scores are highly correlated to race/HHI.

I get so tired of this crap. Correlation does not equal causation. Literally every globally competitive first-world country uses the same standard of testing to identify and groom its top caliber talent. You run with this intellectual hogwash, and you and your "allies" are going to run this country into the ground.

What are you talking about?! Who are my allies?! Standardized tests are garbage. It shows how well people take standardized tests! I became PAINFULLY aware of this while working on my PhD. We had a ton of foreign student get perfect scores on the TOEFL every year. Based on that score and grades, they were assigned graduate teaching positions. We ended up scrambling every Fall because student would come and not speak any English at all.

Standardized tests do not accurately reflect knowledge. I would counter your argument that what is ruining this country is investment in education and slavish devotion to standardized tests. We used to have a world class public education but everyone got tired of paying taxes and obsessed with scoring and rating children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are other application HS.

Banneker and Tech are no competition.

Oh you mean for white families afraid of minorities, yes I guess not.

Not PP but I looked into tech and the test scores are terrible.

Banneker's are great. I would do that in a heartbeat for my kids if they get in.

The 10th grade PARCC is a breeze, low bar to clear with passing scores of 4. But Banneker's SAT scores are only a tad above the national average, year after year, low 500s. Not great.

This argument is always trotted out. You need to do more research on the history and function of the SATs. Scores are highly correlated to race/HHI.

I get so tired of this crap. Correlation does not equal causation. Literally every globally competitive first-world country uses the same standard of testing to identify and groom its top caliber talent. You run with this intellectual hogwash, and you and your "allies" are going to run this country into the ground.

What are you talking about?! Who are my allies?! Standardized tests are garbage. It shows how well people take standardized tests! I became PAINFULLY aware of this while working on my PhD. We had a ton of foreign student get perfect scores on the TOEFL every year. Based on that score and grades, they were assigned graduate teaching positions. We ended up scrambling every Fall because student would come and not speak any English at all.

Standardized tests do not accurately reflect knowledge. I would counter your argument that what is ruining this country is investment in education and slavish devotion to standardized tests. We used to have a world class public education but everyone got tired of paying taxes and obsessed with scoring and rating children.

The TOEFL is not the type of standardized test that anyone is talking about in public education. So, your observation of who performs successfully at an English proficiency test leads you to believe...(I guess?) that ALL standardized tests have no utility. That's just...go away. You can't even be serious. PhD my azz.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are other application HS.

Banneker and Tech are no competition.

Oh you mean for white families afraid of minorities, yes I guess not.

Not PP but I looked into tech and the test scores are terrible.

Banneker's are great. I would do that in a heartbeat for my kids if they get in.

The 10th grade PARCC is a breeze, low bar to clear with passing scores of 4. But Banneker's SAT scores are only a tad above the national average, year after year, low 500s. Not great.

This argument is always trotted out. You need to do more research on the history and function of the SATs. Scores are highly correlated to race/HHI.

I get so tired of this crap. Correlation does not equal causation. Literally every globally competitive first-world country uses the same standard of testing to identify and groom its top caliber talent. You run with this intellectual hogwash, and you and your "allies" are going to run this country into the ground.

This country needs to get serious about addressing deep-rooted problem of lackluster academic outcomes for low SES minority students of all ages, starting with providing good quality, universal preschool and preK to all poor children. Claiming that the SAT is a crap test gets us nowhere. In the 1980s, this low SES minority student achieved near perfect scores on SATs, coming from an ordinary small town high school ranked in the bottom third in his state. The SAT just isn't very hard for students who aren't SpEd who work at math and read voraciously. I'm deeply unimpressed by Banneker's lousy SAT scores (and failure to produce any PSAT National Merit Scholarship semifinalists year after year) and you should be, too.