International Baccalaureate at Eastern?

[Anonymous]

It has nothing to do with racism but low SAT scores. We're Asian and don't care if a school is majority purple aliens from Mars as long as it has high SAT scores but will not consider a high school, especially an application high school that specializes in the sciences, where the avg SAT scores is ~1000 total for all three sections.

[Anonymous]

It may not have anything to do with racism, but it has a little something to do with race/class. Show me the public high school in this country where almost every student is AA or Latino with sky high SAT scores.

We take your point, Eastern is a low-performing school in a catchment area where high SES parents aren't convinced that an open admissions IB Diploma program provides fertile ground for academic excellence.

Why doesn't DCPS survey families in the Eastern catchment area to ask what we'd like to see in a neighborhood HS? What are they afraid of? The expense? What, nothing left over from the 70 million $ renovation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It may not have anything to do with racism, but it has a little something to do with race/class. Show me the public high school in this country where almost every student is AA or Latino with sky high SAT scores.

We take your point, Eastern is a low-performing school in a catchment area where high SES parents aren't convinced that an open admissions IB Diploma program provides fertile ground for academic excellence.

Why doesn't DCPS survey families in the Eastern catchment area to ask what we'd like to see in a neighborhood HS? What are they afraid of? The expense? What, nothing left over from the 70 million $ renovation?

What is interesting is that Eastern actually had a higher percentage of IB students (63%) than Wilson (57%) in SY 14-15.

[Anonymous]

Wilsons OOB numbers will drop over the next few years.

[Anonymous]

Banneker is rigorous? Aren't its average SAT scores terrible?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Agree. I have no idea what you're saying. You do sound pretty angry about something though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Banneker is rigorous? Aren't its average SAT scores terrible?

U.S. News ranks it 2nd in city - behind SWW and ahead of Wash Latin. It is also Title 1, which makes this more remarkable.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Banneker is rigorous? Aren't its average SAT scores terrible?

U.S. News ranks it 2nd in city - behind SWW and ahead of Wash Latin. It is also Title 1, which makes this more remarkable.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/district-of-columbia

Wilson isn't on that list but McKinley is? LOL. No one is going to take that ranking seriously.

[Anonymous]

Any school with average SATs as low as Banneker's by default cannot be academically rigorous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any school with average SATs as low as Banneker's by default cannot be academically rigorous.

Do you understand how averages are calculated?

[Anonymous]

The average of a test in school should still be above the national average. They should do better to serve those students.