Retake High SAT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am white, and over the years with 3 kids going through our public magnet program I have had multiple families with family ancestry from countries other than Europe share their child's scores with me. I was surprised at first, but I also think maybe it is more taboo in my culture to share scores. I think people should be careful about categorizing people who do share their scores as "hyper-competitive" or other dog whistle racist terms.

Look. Some sub subcultures ARE hyper-competitive. There are at least two pockets that I can think where 100% of the families share a common ethnicity and the parents 100% are from the same region of the same country that is not the United States. In one of these groups the dad stays behind and the mother moves to the United States with the kids and lives in a very specific geographic area for very specific academic reasons. I’m not naming the groups because that will lead a lying troll to post that they personally know tons of people from those regions who got GEDs and dig ditches for a living at minimum wage. That … is not possible in the DMV for these 2 groups

Wow! Who needs a dog whistle when you can use a bullhorn…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am white, and over the years with 3 kids going through our public magnet program I have had multiple families with family ancestry from countries other than Europe share their child's scores with me. I was surprised at first, but I also think maybe it is more taboo in my culture to share scores. I think people should be careful about categorizing people who do share their scores as "hyper-competitive" or other dog whistle racist terms.

The vast majority of DC's cohort who do not share scores are kids of non-European ancestry. So not sure who's doing the whistling here.

Because you have made them feel ostracized and uncomfortable and "other." At our majority-minority magnet school, all the kids share scores, parents too. Your white kid's one token non-white friend at their "top" private isn't a very large data set.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ha ha. 1530 will get him into any school, including HYPS, except maybe CM because they are into this 800 math score thing. But 790 on math is pretty close, so CM is still in the running for him.

I think you meant to say that 1530 will buy him a lottery ticket for any school, including HYPS? A high score is necessary but not sufficient. (And it's debatable what constitutes as high enough to be in the pool to be considered.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am white, and over the years with 3 kids going through our public magnet program I have had multiple families with family ancestry from countries other than Europe share their child's scores with me. I was surprised at first, but I also think maybe it is more taboo in my culture to share scores. I think people should be careful about categorizing people who do share their scores as "hyper-competitive" or other dog whistle racist terms.

Look. Some sub subcultures ARE hyper-competitive. There are at least two pockets that I can think where 100% of the families share a common ethnicity and the parents 100% are from the same region of the same country that is not the United States. In one of these groups the dad stays behind and the mother moves to the United States with the kids and lives in a very specific geographic area for very specific academic reasons. I’m not naming the groups because that will lead a lying troll to post that they personally know tons of people from those regions who got GEDs and dig ditches for a living at minimum wage. That … is not possible in the DMV for these 2 groups

Hello Karen! How are you doing today? I am sorry my DC of color’s high scores threatens your fragile self esteem….