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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Small point, but they do, in fact, teach Latin at Banneker. [/quote]

This thread suddenly turned into misinformation zone. Don't rely on it for real information about Banneker, folks.[/quote]

It's really hard to tell if it's the usual racist trolls or if it's the type As trying to increase the odds of their kids getting in by getting others to drop interest.

They're not even trying hard - readily obvious falsehoods.[/quote]

Grow up already.

They teach 14 or 15 AP subjects and we're racist trolls for noting that that's not nearly enough in 2024 for an elite "application" high school program.  Got it. But our true racist selves emerge when we mention that Banneker IBD scores have been dismal from the get go, for many years now.[/quote]

It’s also a Title 1 school that requires significant community service hours.[/quote]

Are the community service requirements different from the usual 100 hours? And the point of offering more APs is that it gives students more choice. [/quote]

Banneker requires 270 community service hours spread out over four years: 45 in freshman and sophomore year, 90 in junior and senior year.[/quote]

Am I correct that since the DCPS graduation requirement is 100 hours of community service, Banneker will still allow you to graduate as long as you have 100 hours? The 270 hours of community service is a requirement in theory but cannot be enforced in practice [/quote]

No clue. I graduated from there years ago, but no one ever challenged it. You have to go to your community lab site every Wednesday. Every other week, school gets out two hours early for that specific purpose. I'm not sure how it is now, but back when I was there you had to get a sign off from your community lab supervisor verifying your progress towards your hours. [/quote]

This is all still true today. Also, community lab is 1.5 ungraded credits (0.25, 0.25, 0.5, 0.5), and those credits are required for the Banneker diploma. I suppose you could stop midway through your senior year and transfer to your neighborhood school and get a DCPS diploma, but why would you want to?[/quote]

You can just stay at Banneker and get a DCPS diploma. I believe they would have to give it to you if you fulfill the DCPS graduation requirements. You would not need to transfer to your neighborhood school. And to be honest, barely anyone outside of Banneker is aware there is a separate Banneker diploma and who ever looks at your diploma anyway. I’m not advocating that students skip the Banneker community service requirements but I do believe clarifying options is important. Feel free to ask at the Banneker interview- what happens if a student does not complete all the required 270 hours of community service? If they are honest, they will tell you that the student will still graduate [/quote]

Idk. My kid is already at Banneker and really enjoys their community lab situation, and also as a parent I try to encourage responsible and pro-social behavior, so I don’t plan to “clarify” this “option.”[/quote]

Smart. Sounds like an easy way to weed your family out as it’s incredibly entitled to try to circumvent the requirements.

[b]Banneker is not a school that caters to UMC parents nor should it be in a city for the diverse city of students it serves. [/b]I would love for them to offer additional IB and AP courses and they probably will eventually. Most kids prefer the AP track though there seems to be more interest than usual in the IB track in the current freshman class.[/quote]

Brooklyn Tech grad, POC, who couldn't disagree more. Your myopia and, presumably, white guilt, is unacknowledged in the argument you're making. When an urban magnet HS "caters" to UMC parents, what it's doing is serving the talented, hard-working poor kids there better than a more socio-economically segregated program ever could. I doubt that I could have handled a top 10 SLAC on a Pell Grant without having had many high SES and, gasp, white and Asian classmates, in HS. At BT, I became friends with kids whose parents, who I also got to know, had attended my future alma mater. I didn't know those sorts of highly educated and prosperous people before HS. Making high SES friends at school broadened my horizons in a thousand constructive ways, enabling me to imagine my own UMC future. I'd really like to see Banneker become no more as AA and low SES than the population of the District is. The interview my kid just had seemed stuck in a time warp. We're not as interested as we were before our interviews.[/quote]

+100. Also, in general it is easier to recruit high quality teachers to teach a diverse mix of kids (lower ses kids are often struggling with a host of issues through no fault of their own). Usually a mix of higher income kids + lower income kids is easier to teach than a bunch of 100% minority low income kids.  So more mixed schools often attract a bigger talent pool of teachers which is critical in subjects that are hard to find teachers for such as math, chemistry, physics, computer science, foreign language. [/quote]

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