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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AA Wilson parent here with 4.0 DD. She is having an awesome experience. More than the teachers an administration, the peer group matters. Honors and AP level classes offer rigor and can be very demanding. It's a large school with many, many different types of kids. I don't agree with the previous poster about teachers not pushing advanced kids - we have had the opposite experience.

[b]I will say though as truth that Wilson is a school where white kids definitely excel - no question.  While I actually hate to put a racial lens on it because race is a social construct, it is just the truth and stats bear it out.

[/b]I would think coming from Oakland there are similar  issues. Anyway good luck.[/quote]

white do well not just because they are white, but because white students at Wilson are mostly high SES from families with highly educated parents and living in safe upper NW.  as discussed on this board many times, it seems that AA families with a similar SES level and education tend to send their kids to private instead of Wilson so given the demographics of DC a good amount of kids on the wrong track at Wilson are AA and other minorities with low SES[/quote]

Don't be embarrassed about being white and what that actually means.  Facts are facts.  White students do well at Wilson because white students are more likely to be in a better economic situation. 
High SES AAs are not at the same level academically as high SES white folks - this has been proven over and over.  That's why high SES black families try to stack the deck with private school.[/quote]

Jesus, Charles Murray. Don't you have anything better to do than troll parenting boards?[/quote]

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