Banneker vs. Walls
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Anonymous
It’s really not required. There is no way a school can kick a kid out for not attending. Schools can’t rescind enrollment offers for anything at this point. |
Anonymous
It is required per previous parent. You are just saying they can’t kick you out if you don’t attend. I suspect it’s like remedial summer school to try to catch the kids up to speed before 9th grade. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
They do assessments for class placement and team building. |
Anonymous
This is what we were told also. Thanks for the accurate info. So few HS parents on here and so much inaccurate info. |
Anonymous
Great. They still can’t kick you out if you don’t attend. I feel like people really don’t have a sense of DCPS and the policies around high school. They don’t kick kids out, period. You can throw a chair at a teacher and they won’t prevent you from coming back to the school, they certainly won’t kick a high performing kid attending Banneker for not going to summer bridge. |
Anonymous
I graduated from Banneker years ago, but I hear not much has changed. Think of Banneker Summer Institute (BSI) as an on-ramp to the rigor and culture of the school. It's where they bring you up to speed on all the ways DCPS has failed you LOL. I went into it thinking I was advanced and was quickly humbled. At the end of the summer, they tested us and placed us in our fall classes based on our performance. BSI is also where they ingrain the "We are a family" motto into your head. By the time the fall rolls around, you feel like you belong there. |
Anonymous
Sure, I guess. But if you don’t want to do BSI maybe Banneker isn’t for you. There are plenty of great options in DC. |
Anonymous
Read post 17:35. The summer program is to try to catch kids up. The assessments doesn’t take 5 weeks and neither does the team building. This should not be a surprise with the history of the school. |
Anonymous
I don’t need to read anything! My kid went through BSI. No one needed to help my kid “catch up” or the vast majority of her classmates. I realize Banneker is a controversial school on DCUM. But the last thing I need to be is schooled on place my kid actually attends. DCUM loves to paint Banneker students in the most negative light and frankly it’s disgusting. The most egregious part is most posting here don’t have a child at the school or even know a student who attends. |
Anonymous
| Why does Banneker get so much criticism here it’s simple. The school demonstrates black excellence and has for generations. As a proud AA Washingtonian I has countless family members and friends graduate from this school. The school has majority students of color and we know about the achievement gap that exists but when we encounter a school who is working to close it this becomes an issue. Of course all schools have room for improvement. If you don’t like the way the school is run then don’t send your children there. Don’t worry aren’t they building a brand new school to alleviate crowded Wilson go there. |
Anonymous
PP post here sorry for the typos typing on my phone but you can still understand my point. |
Anonymous
I don’t understand what your anger is about. Just because your kid did not need to catch up doesn’t mean other kids don’t need it. Many of these kids come from poorly performing middle schools and as PP above says the achievement gap is real. Banneker has a summer program, which sounds similar to many colleges, to help these kids. |
Anonymous
That’s not true about many great options and that’s ridiculous to weed out kids who don’t have five weeks to spend in summer school. Also as a side note what kid wants to do summer programs at Walls or Banneker? That shouldn’t be a deciding factor for attending those schools. |
Anonymous
Come on, paint Banneker students in the most negative light? There's been copious praise of Banneker students on this thread. The bulk of the criticism has rightly been leveled at the adults who let future Banneker students down by failing to provide adequate elementary and middle school rigor to DCPS' best and brightest, particularly low SES AA students Wards 7 & 8. You don't need to have a child at the school to register that Banneker's unimpressive standardized test scores and failure to attract more than a handful of white students, and effectively no Asians, belie deep-rooted problems, whatever good things are happening there. What's "disgusting" to me is that the half-assed status quo is acceptable to most Banneker stakeholders. In NYC, where I come from, students like many who attend Banneker would have been identified as intellectually gifted from a young age on the road to attending a high school with average SAT scores in the high 600s or 700s. They might even have been recruited by "Prep for Prep," and sent to a boarding school on a full tuition financial aid scholarship, like some of my middle school friends. Those paths to success are standard in NYC. |