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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the ever-loving???  He'll ask the schools & myschoolsdc about admissions in a future column? [/quote]

Apparently it's "shoot first, ask questions later..."   :roll: [/quote]

Agreed. This is pathetic. About to break up with the Post.[/quote]

Yes, agreed.  Also, this is just absurd:

Martel has a point that some of the schools with high white and middle-class percentages have ambitious academic policies — such as heavy use of AP — that alienate parents who think their children can’t handle the strain. Whether something should be done about that will be the topic for a future column on what Martel has discovered.

First off - "what Martel has discovered?"  He didn't "discover" anything - he looked at CAS demographic breakdowns, speculated that there obviously must be some sort of nefarious reason for those breakdowns, and then squawks that schools "should produce evidence that “their student demographic data are the results of random lotteries” and not caused by sneaking more affluent white kids onto their rolls when the D.C. school admissions officials aren’t looking."  In essence, prove you aren't cooking the books.  If you don't, we'll assume you are.

More troubling is the suggestion that schools with "ambitious academic policies" are somehow doing something WRONG - I can't even.  We should now discourage rigorous academic programs because some parents are intimidated?  We wouldn't want to challenge kids.

What a hack.  [/quote]

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