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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid tells us all the time that in her/his cohort at SWW there are non-white kids who do not belong to SWW and that the selection process left out at least two extremely well-qualified white kids from her middle school charter, who, she/he knows, did very well at the tests.

Racial and ethnic balances are part of the selection process. At least Trogisch did not lie by refusing to respond to the question on race and ethnicity at the open house (and only provided feedback on gender), as one of the PP reported.

I really want to see the outcome of the selection process this year as a larger than ever mass of white applicant is heading towards SWW, from Hardy and Deal (confidence in Wilson is at a record low, with discipline and overcrowding out of control) .

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This is consistent with the fact that in DC schools are under the Mayoral control sphere, i.e. are under political control and political guidelines. And this is what you get in return: social engineering in a magnet school.
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The correction is low though, no more than the bottom 10-15% of the applicant ranked body is re-ranked to account for ethnicity and social rebalancing (different weighs assigned to students from reward/rising schools than focus/priority schools - this aspect might penalize students from Deal/Hardy/Oyster). [/b]

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How on earth would you know this?

FWIW, my child (white, female, from NW) was admitted to Walls but chose another school instead. The lack of transparency in admissions is but one thing about Walls that failed to impress, but I do think that as a taxpayer-funded school, they should be required to offer some measure of transparency about admissions. No one should be required to call and request their own test results, for instance.[/quote]

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