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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I for one really liked what I saw at the Banneker interview. The entry was so different from entering our EOTP middle. The security guards watched you but were friendly, no one was ordering you around, they helped you get through, even though they also weren’t shirking the process.

The kids at the table hustled DS off to his test or whatever it was. Another kid brought me to a nearby space where she answered my million questions. And though a charter kid she was clearly from my kid’s demographic. And just being there I could see a demographic mix I liked. Not dominated by Ward 3 kids, nobody slumming from privates, no Georgetown professor’s kids as far as I could tell.

[b]And the program the AP and teacher and administrator described was rigorous.[/b] Character building. Community focused. The kind of thing we just haven’t seen up to this point. To date the program has taught my kid and not much more, he’s spent his time teaching his friends, and it’s tiring after a while despite his inherent goodwill and friendliness.

I think it’ll be good for him. And it’s inspiring to me. I yearn for a community like this. After seeing how DCPS has done so little to integrate or improve, with (now I’m sounding pretentious I know) Obama followed by Voldemort, with BLM ending in a painting on 16th Street, I am really looking forward to a small version of a future that America appears not to want. Where _these_ kids replace us.

Just impressed is all. 
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Rigor is relative and we're mired in relativity here in DCPS. Without ES GT, without above grade-level offerings in DCPS middle schools outside math (maybe) and without the demographics for broad-based high-achievement due to insufficient home support, Banneker can only be so rigorous across the board.

I used to interview at Banneker as volunteer for my Ivy, did that for over a decade. I stopped because nobody was getting in, not even close as far as I could tell. I was interviewing top students who'd scored 3s on most of their APs (having taken no more than 4 or 5 exams) with SAT scores in the high 500s or low 600s, or so the kids told me. Maybe you lose patience if you attended a full-fledged magnet high school where Banneker type students achieve so much more. I don't doubt that the school does a fine job with character building and community.  Signed - Less Than Impressed Boston Latin Grad, POC, Firs Gen College [/quote]

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