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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are other application HS. [/quote]

Banneker and Tech are no competition.[/quote]

Oh you mean for white families afraid of minorities, yes I guess not.[/quote]

Not PP but I looked into tech and the test scores are terrible. [/quote]

Banneker's are great. I would do that in a heartbeat for my kids if they get in. [/quote]

The 10th grade PARCC is a breeze, low bar to clear with passing scores of 4. But Banneker's SAT scores are only a tad above the national average, year after year, low 500s. Not great. [/quote]

This argument is always trotted out. You need to do more research on the history and function of the SATs.[b] Scores are highly correlated to race/HHI[/b]. [/quote]

I get so tired of this crap.  Correlation does not equal causation.  Literally every globally competitive first-world country uses the same standard of testing to identify and groom its top caliber talent.  You run with this intellectual hogwash, and you and your "allies" are going to run this country into the ground.[/quote]

This country needs to get serious about addressing deep-rooted problem of lackluster academic outcomes for low SES minority students of all ages, starting with providing good quality, universal preschool and preK to all poor children.  Claiming that the SAT is a crap test gets us nowhere.  In the 1980s, this low SES minority student achieved near perfect scores on SATs, coming from an ordinary small town high school ranked in the bottom third in his state.  The SAT just isn't very hard for students who aren't SpEd who work at math and read voraciously.  I'm deeply unimpressed by Banneker's lousy SAT scores (and failure to produce any PSAT National Merit Scholarship semifinalists year after year) and you should be, too.[/quote]

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