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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not buying above. I used to teach BCC International Baccalaureate humanities classes (not technically a magnet program) and have done volunteer work at Walls. From what I've observed, IBD BCC is head and shoulders above Walls academically. For example, Walls doesn't teach languages past the AP level while BCC does in half a dozen languages and BCC's IBD writing classes offer maybe triple the rigor of those at Walls. DMV teens can become independent without DCPS chaos and the obsession with equity vs. achievement.[/quote]

What volunteer work have you done at walls that gives you such insight into the school? Honest question because I work there and there are very few volunteers.[/quote]

There’s a repeat poster around here who bashes DCPS on the grounds of “volunteer work” they once did.

As with most threads on DCPS it seems to come down to the other suburban schools having fewer poor kids and college-bound kids being the majority. [/quote]

Say could that repeat poster be you?

You're one of the posters who jumps on every Walls thread to reflexively deny DCPS' obvious, egregious and eminently preventable low capacity and lack of political will to challenge its highest-performing students. I call BS on the crux of the problem being suburban schools having "fewer poor kids" and "college-bound kids being the majority." What we see in DCPS is the result of more than half a century of dismal policy decisions not to prioritize learning for the strongest students, low-income, middle-income and high-income alike.

You can't possibly be the product of an urban magnet high school where most students have been low SES yet college-bound students are in the majority, make that elite college bound. Nobody educated at a NYC magnet, like my spouse and I, would post such blather.  [/quote]

OMG.  The NYC magnet grad posts again to re-explain to us that Hunter College is better than Walls.[/quote]
 
Yeesh. I know a kid starting at Hunter and they would likely be better off at Walls. [/quote]

How are these schools even comparable? They’re in different cities. No one is moving to NYC for their kid to go to Hunter or Stuy! This is a DCPS discussion. Different city. Different families. Different kids.[/quote]

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