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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're being sarcastic?

I estimate that Walls is turning away at least 75 white applicants per year, and a couple dozen Asians, most of whom are qualified to attend. There are more qualified white and Asian families who'd stay in the public system for high school at BASIS, or presumably an equivalent program academically, if they had an entry option for new 9th grade students.  There is a HS entry option at the BASIS Arizona programs, but not here in DC.

These numbers point to white and Asian buy-in for a second diverse academic test-in HS program in this city right now, and more still in the future, given changing DCPS and DCPC middle school demographics.

Running Banneker as the HS equivalent of an HBCU pretty clearly deters a good cohort of whites and Asians who lack access to both Wilson and Walls from applying.  It's simple.  If there were less emphasis on educating minorities at Banneker and more emphasis on academic excellence and inclusiveness, the school could attract more whites, and some Asians, possibly a lot more.  Higher admissions standards and better teaching would help, along with more robust academics, particularly on the IB Diploma track.[/quote]

You know zero about the school. You should stop because you’re embarrassing yourself. You clearly never associate high achieving with Black students, which is sad. Banneker has smart, highly motivated students.[/quote]

DP: Sadly, I suspect that the point of this thread is as simple as a few posters, stunned by the excellence, supportive environment, and shiny new building at Banneker, want to remake the facilities in their own image.   The tone of many of the comments is the opposite of genuine inclusiveness.  [/quote]

Disagree and I'm not white. I'd like to seen the facilities remade in the image of the teenage population of the District in 2021. Comments from champions of the status quo evoke the arguments made for keeping racial, ethnic and religious minorities out of functional institutions in previous generations. We don't need them. We're excellent without them. No need to up our game to compete with them. They're irrelevant to our success.  Nobody should fall for this cozenage.

When I look up at Banneker's average SAT scores, just a tad higher than the national average for math and English, I'm not convinced that the school wouldn't do better by its students with a more racially and socio-economically diverse study body.  Need evidence?  Walls' average scores are almost 100 points higher, per subject.[/quote]

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