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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not buying that expensive test prep is the key to success, or that any DC public school is producing students with 8 Ivy League acceptances.  Such stories make the front pages of newspapers of national record.  And I've heard more than enough excuses for Banneker's unimpressive  scores.

I grew up in a low-income family (qualifying for free lunch through MS, though my proud immigrant parents wouldn't accept the food).  We couldn't afford SAT prep classes and I worked in the family business from grade school, yet was a PSAT National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist in NY, a state with one of the country's highest PSAT cut-off scores.  My younger sister was also a semifinalist, and as was my lower middle-class spouse and her brother.

What I had that the Banneker and Eastern kids lack were mostly high SES white and Asian classmates.  Frequent visits to their homes taught me how mainstream upper middle-class Americans live - with reliable cars, backyard pools, and trips to Disneyland and the Grand Canyon.  I wanted in and asked classmates' professional parents how to get there.

DCPS, please end apartheid education on Capitol Hill past elementary school and Stuart-Hobson.  Find a way to integrate Eastern in five years or less.  The half-baked IB Diploma Program pretty clearly isn't going to do it.

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For one, most Banneker and Eastern students have very highly educated teachers from the upper middle class who serve as role models to them everyday. Have you seen the credentials of some of these DC teachers???? They are teaching and guiding students on how to get into the upper middle class. Hence, a graduating class with 100% college acceptances and millions in scholarships. I'd say those Banneker kids are on their way, wouldn't you?

No one's segregating those schools. Whites and Asians have--like you--looked at SAT scores (or whatever) and decided they don't want their children to attend the school. Welp! Seems like those college-bound kids are doing just fine anyway.[/quote]

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