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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hard to understand why Banneker bothers with IB Diploma. Sheesh.[/quote]

As long as enough kids want to do it, why would they shut it down? The top IB kids have great college outcomes (and for middle class and poorer kids that often means a full ride, too). Plus many people believe the IB curriculum is inherently valuable. And if you don’t feel that way, just do the AP track. [/quote]

But if it is only 20 kids per class doing IB, how many are the top kids? Maybe 5 or 6. So if you mean there are 5 or 6 kids each year who do very well on the IB track and have excellent college outcomes , that’s good but wouldn’t it make more sense to just make it an AP school and offer more AP classes so overall more kids benefit and have excellent college outcomes. In other words, is a tiny IB program the best way to allocate scarce resources in a public school system? Perhaps the answer is yes but it is a question worth asking and knowing DCPS, it is unlikely they reflect on optimization[/quote]

+1.  AP offerings are lacking.  IB offerings are lacking.  Just focus on AP and offer more classes for the majority. Only 40% of AP offerings is pretty low and the AP STEM offerings subpar.[/quote]

Subpar is putting it mildly. They don't even teach the mother romance language, Latin. We asked if they did at the parent interview. Ridiculous. Only in DCPS would there be high demand for a selective urban magnet program running on AP fumes like Banneker. Affirmative action is over at the college level.  Time for Banneker to get with the times with a younger head.[/quote]

THIS. IS. RACIST.  Why does every Banneker thread have to devolve to “affirmative action” and the insinuations that come with that?  And the school is CLEARLY not “subpar.”  If you don’t like it, don’t send your kid there.  YOU RACIST TROLL.  YOU ARE A SUBPAR EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING.  And no, I’m not black.  But I can still see who YOU are—a racist coward who hides behind an anonymous thread to spew garbage.  [/quote]

Wow, sounds like you need to get help with your anger management.

Nobody wins when you have a subpar program and offerings especially the lower SES kids that the school serves, since families can’t afford to supplement outside of school.  [/quote]

+100. We're a minority family and we want Banneker to teach AP Chem & BC Calculus. We want ib diploma scores in the 30s or the program to be scrapped. We want more AP languages than French & Spanish.

Yes, the end of affirmative action in college admissions means URMs are going to have to compete more on academic record than in the past. No denying that one. We want a dynamic new Banneker principal who gets it.[/quote]

If your kid is in ES, there probably will be a new principal in a few years. Not sure anything will change though. I could see the present principal handpicking her successor. Same with the CHEC principal who has also been around for ever [/quote]

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