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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White DCPS parent here. I asked a Black parent of my kid's friend (who grew up in DC) this. She advised against my kid applying/going and in fact said she wouldn't think of sending her kid there. Her reasons were more class than race: Bannaker, she says,  is seen "for the have-nots" and well-off kids in general won't be welcomed.
But I agree with PP. Let's put it to the test and have all the kids who want an academically challenging school apply. Then we'll see for sure if indeed white families are still allergic to that neighborhood or if Banneker won't admit the percent of qualified non-AA who do apply.... [/quote]

New poster here.  I don't know who your friend is but she is waaaay off base, especially if she claims she grew up in DC.  The school in the past pulled many middle class and upper middle class students especially back in the day before many of the high income/highly educated blacks started moving out of the city in the late 80s & 90s.

I will say that, that was then, this is now.  I don't know what the make up of the school is today.  It has always been highly regarded and appears to be chugging along just fine.  However as I previously stated, a vast number of blacks on the higher end of the socio economic scale moved out decades ago so perhaps the pool of "best of the best" has diminished or spread to optioins that weren't previously available.

Still the assertion of Banneker being a school for the "have-nots" is absurd.  [/quote]

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