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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Sounds like a post full of hateful white people, as usual.[/b]  Affirmative action is there for a reason!  You sound so excited that the next administration is going to “come at it hard”.  Compare the schools without showing off how racist you are.  Ok?[/quote]

I wouldn't say it's just white people.  Plenty of Asians are complaining too because they think they're special for paying boatloads of money to be able to regurgitate facts/stats on tests.[/quote]. Shame on those Asians, for scoring high on tests. They need to be stopped.[/quote]

For having access to the expensive prep and all the other financial advantages that allowed them to “score high on tests” when low SES POC kids did not.

FTFY.[/quote]

There are a good many low-income minority students in this city in public schools who score high on SATs and a slew of APs, particularly at BASIS.  They tend not to have access to expensive prep.  What they have is drive, and, with BASIS, a school that preps them intensely for SATs and and APs in a way that Banneker doesn't seem to. To my knowledge, even the highest-performing Banneker students take just 3 or 4 AP exams. Basis won't graduate students who take fewer than six. [/quote]

Your information is out of date. Is it based on the interviews you conducted 10-15 years ago? Because the school has made significant gains in the interim, both on the SAT (the average has gone from around 1000 to over 1100, which is to say from below the national average to about the 60th percentile) and on AP exams. Nowadays the highest-performing students in the AP program take 4+ APs by junior year and easily surpass 6 by graduation.

As others have pointed out, Banneker’s school averages would look more like BASIS’s if it also restricted its senior class to the top 50 students. And in fact Banneker does restrict access to its IB and most AP classes, which I think you’ll agree is where intellectual peer group matters most. But the school retains and graduates students with a much broader range of abilities than BASIS. It’s just a different model.[/quote]

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