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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which doesn't alter the [b]fact[/b] that [b]many if not most [/b]current Walls students would not have been admitted via the pre-Covid admissions process because they weren't adequately prepared and are insufficiently academic.  [/quote]

WTF dude - talk about lack of evidence for these emphatic statements!  "Fact"??  "Many, if not most"? You have no clue if this is true or not, and no way to possibly measure it.  My kid is a 9th grader there under the new admission standards and scored 99th percentile on 9th grade PSAT and is acing all classes (now, I don't think the classes at Walls have been particularly challenging in 9th grade, but that is another topic for discussion).  I assume kid would have also gotten in under old admission process as well (but of course could never know that for sure).[/quote]

+1. Walls obviously still has lots of kids who would have gotten in under the previous admissions process. The applicant pool is doing a lot of the work here. [/quote]

Right, so why would a standardized test be problem for the highfliers? Bring the test back without harming them. Those who defend ditching the tests are missing a simple truth.  Getting rid of the tests has alleviated pressure on District ed leaders to ensure that the brightest and hardest-working poor kids can crack Walls and Banneker on their merits with the academic skills they need to thrive learning alongside better prepared UMC classmates. In Boston and NYC, an investment in admissions test prep centers for poor kids (open to all, free) helps keep poor kids in the magnet school admissions game. Bowser with rather go for low-cost shortcuts to increasing diversity, thereby short-changing the most capable low ses URMS. Voters have let her get away with it. [/quote]

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