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[quote=Anonymous]Any thread about Banneker on DCUM "degenerates" into talking about race, DCPS priorities, and SAT scores because there's no sidestepping these matters for the strongest students and prospective students, regardless of race and SES. I used to volunteer to interview Banneker applicants for my Ivy. Until a couple years ago, I trooped there each February for over a decade to interview two or three students in their top 10 academically. Eventually, I got fed up with students telling me that their guidance counselors and teachers had advised that Banneker applicants don't need half a dozen APs scores of 4 or 5 to be admitted to elite colleges. No Banneker student I interviewed--and I must have talked to two dozen--was admitted to my alma mater. The problem is that the school operates in an affirmative action time warp. Banneker is clearly in dire need of modernization academically, socially and administratively, not in terms of the physical plant.[/quote]
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