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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have a dog in this fight (yet), but I think it's safe to say that a majority of kids attending Whitman are not pompous ingrates that are oblivious to reality. Sure there are some, but most are being raised by parents that are somewhat intelligent, who are sitting in high-paying jobs and hold advanced degrees. These parents have instilled in their children a sense of what's right and wrong and pushed critical thinking and rocking the boat over a sheep mentality.  It is much more likely that these kids purposely tanked the test as a protest/statement against this kind of testing that public school kids are so often forced to endure. And even if they tanked it for more selfish reasons -- i.e. they were told it wouldn't effect their college admissions -- unless the school made it clear to them (in real/digestible terms) why doing well on the test was good for their school and community you can't blame them for not wanting to focus their energy on something they saw held no value for them or their future. [/quote]

So when Whitman scores are low, it's political protest, but when other high school scores are low, it's...?[/quote]

....a culture of not valuing education.  Come on, you know how this goes. White kids get the benefit of the doubt.  Black kids are too busy birthin' babies in the hallways to take a test. That's how DCUM works. [/quote]

+1  BCC has quite a few parents with high paying jobs, yet somehow those kids didn't tank the test.[/quote]

I'm not talking about any other school. What I'm saying is that the students purposely failed the test -- it was a collective decision to do it. And of course being in a high-paying job or having an advanced degree does not make you a good person, and that wasn't stated anywhere in my post. What I'm saying is there is likely a high number of parents at Whitman who are teaching their kids to think critically and question the status quo. And once again, I'm just talking about Whitman, not comparing scores to anywhere else. [/quote]

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