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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]Parent here of an accepted student at Banneker I have heard the summer program is from July 5-29 from 9-12 but I have not heard anything from the school yet.[/quote]

Congrats to your student! It sounds like it must not be "required" since you haven't heard from school about it. If that's the case it's nice to have it in place for kids who may feel they need it or want to do extra summer studies. I hope the school year goes well![/quote]

Current parent here. It’s required. The school can be very slow with communications. They will reach out closer to the end of the year. Last year, I ended up calling to confirm because I was scheduling summer trips and sports camp. They are extremely friendly and open to questions.[/quote]

I don’t get why summer school is required for incoming students.  That’s ridiculous.  [/quote]

It’s really not required.  There is no way a school can kick a kid out for not attending.  Schools can’t rescind enrollment offers for anything at this point.[/quote]

It is required per previous parent. You are just saying they can’t kick you out if you don’t attend.  I suspect it’s like remedial summer school to try to catch the kids up to speed before 9th grade.[/quote]

They do assessments for class placement and team building.[/quote]

This is what we were told also. Thanks for the accurate info. So few HS parents on here and so much inaccurate info.
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Read post 17:35.  The summer program is to try to catch kids up.  The assessments doesn’t take 5 weeks and neither does the team building.  This should not be a surprise with the history of the school.[/quote]

I don’t need to read anything! My kid went through BSI. No one needed to help my kid “catch up” or the vast majority of her classmates. I realize Banneker is a controversial school on DCUM. But the last thing I need to be is schooled on place my kid actually attends. DCUM loves to paint Banneker students in the most negative light and frankly it’s disgusting. The most egregious part is most posting here don’t have a child at the school or even know a student who attends.[/quote]
Come on, paint Banneker students in the most negative light?  There's been copious praise of Banneker students on this thread. The bulk of the criticism has rightly been leveled at the adults who let future Banneker students down by failing to provide adequate elementary and middle school rigor to DCPS' best and brightest, particularly low SES AA students Wards 7 & 8.

You don't need to have a child at the school to register that Banneker's unimpressive standardized test scores and failure to attract more than a handful of white students, and effectively no Asians, belie deep-rooted problems, whatever good things are happening there.  What's "disgusting" to me is that the half-assed status quo is acceptable to most Banneker stakeholders.  In NYC, where I come from, students like many who attend Banneker would have been identified as intellectually gifted from a young age on the road to attending a high school with average SAT scores in the high 600s or 700s.   They might even have been recruited by "Prep for Prep," and sent to a boarding school on a full tuition financial aid scholarship, like some of my middle school friends.  Those paths to success are standard in NYC. [/quote]

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