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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP: I mean, did you even bother to have your kid apply to other schools like [b]Banneker - McKinley or lottery for Latin - Basis[/b]? Walls has been cultivating absolute mediocrity for the past four years since getting rid of the test, yet everyone on this forum continues to act as if it is the only best high school in DC. It's not. Your kid deserves better.[/quote]

This is hilarious! None of the other schools are test based either. So what are they?

SWW has been the same school for a long time. Just search this Board-same complaints from a decade ago. Plenty of the kids that were admitted under the "test" have struggled at SWW. It's a lot easier to have mommy pay from test prep than to have great exec functioning and determination to excel. Testing has it's place but it's certainly not the only factor for a scuccessful student.[/quote]

1000% this. I’m a teacher, and this is very true. But you’ll never convince these people about that. Also, there is so much talk about Dartmouth bringing back the SATs for equity, but what isn’t talked about is that there is still inherent bias in these tests that negatively affect minorities and all girls. Bringing back the test may allow some underrepresented kids with high scores to get into their college of choice, but it does nothing for the kids who score low due to bias and less test prep (because test prep is expensive). There is enough research on this for us to understand how it works. Bringing back tests can raise up a few kids, but it’s really just a bandaid for inequity. And it’s just recycling old strategies rather than being innovative. Maybe there is a way to bring back testing AND eliminate the inherent racial, gender, and economic bias in testing—I don’t know. But everyone screaming for testing isn’t looking at it deeply enough. Also, if Dartmouth realized it wasn’t letting in enough under underrepresented applicants, they could have tried another way to ensure they admitted those students rather than relying on something that we know also operates with bias. I’m not sure what the answer is—sure, if reinstating the SAT helps a little, they should do it. I’m also worried that colleges will then say, here, we fixed the equity issues. We are now done. And we are so far from done. Speaking for my kids, who are also underrepresented. [/quote]

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