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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've dealt with one college counselor as an alum interviewing Ivy League applicants and s/he seemed dim-witted, stuck in a different age.  No real ambition for the brightest kids, seeing any halfway decent college offering good fi aid viewed as acceptable for the best students.

The main problem with Banneker seems to be old-fashioned thinking about affirmative action: no need for white/upper-middle-class kids in the school, no need for high octane SAT and AP scores, no need for high fliers to take more than a handful of AP classes, no need for cutting-edge facilities.   No, our kids will all get a leg up for being hard-working, well taught, minority and, for the most part, poor.  Buy this hackneyed story if you wish, but times they are a changin' on diversity issues in this country.

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What the hell are you talking about???  As a parent, I shout from the mountain top about how great I think the Banneker administration is.  You use one example of a situation with a guidance counselor and then say "no need for white/upper-middle-class kids in the school, no need for high octane SAT and AP scores, no need for high fliers to take more than a handful of AP classes, no need for cutting-edge facilities.   No, our kids will all get a leg up for being hard-working, well taught, minority and, for the most part, poor.  Buy this hackneyed story if you wish, but times they are a changin' on diversity issues in this country."  A lot the kids have overcome hardship.  They have homeless kids in the top of their class.  Yes, that will give them a leg up.

Let's just see what happens with affirmative action.  Quite frankly, I attended a historically black college.  I don't need my son to attend an "ivy".  I've made a ton of money in my career.  More than most of my ivy counterparts to be honest.  So, I don't need your "affirmative action" in admissions since you seem to hate it so much.

All they talk about is how hard the kids must work to stay.  I cannot believe the support we've received from the school.  They love to talk about where the kids are going to college.  They encouraged us to enroll our son in the Exeter and Andover summer programs.  Are you serious.  Please stop commenting.  Fine, we get it, you hate the school.  I think it was by far, the best choice for our son.

They literally walk around and show the school banners of all of the schools students have attended.  I've been there when students came back to see teachers and they are so excited and thankful.  [/quote]

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