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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The animosity toward Banneker is crazy.

It's been happening on DCUM long before this building stuff.

I don't get it at all. We complain all day about dysfunctional schools and DCPS failures. Banneker is a success story. If you don't want to send your kids -- don't.

But must you run down these students because their SAT scores are low or whatever the critique of the day is?

By and large, these are bright, hardworking kids who have persevered[b] despite many attending poor performing ES and MSs[/b]. They should be celebrated and DCPS should be studying what happens there to try and replicate it.

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largely agree with above, except Banneker is also a draw for non-dysfunctional ES programs like DC Prep and KIPP

I'd love to see a day where instead of grandstanding and discounting lower SATs by demographic we instead handicap higher scores which result from extensive and costly test prep and don't really reflect the test takers' given abilities.[/quote]

PP - your suggestion reminded me of yesterday's New York Times story: "How NYC's Elite Public Schools Lost Their Black and Hispanic Students."

Spoiler alert - the percentage of minorities has dropped precipitously as test prep outfits increased. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/03/nyregion/nyc-public-schools-black-hispanic-students.html[/quote]

Test prep in DC seems more geared towards college admission, but NYC has had test prep for magnets as a cottage industry for decades.  NYC test-in schools are ruthless -- it's only about the final score. The top schools skew heavily Asian.  Even as the city has tried to reform there's been enormous political pressure to maintain the status quo.  White privilege has has its limits, but the lack of AA and Latino students is genuinely alarming.[/quote]

Yes. The article tracks data from 1976 to now. Back then, all the elite NYC schools had at least 25% black and Latino students. Now it is less than 19% in many cases. Of course not everyone can get help preparing for the test. A mess. [/quote]

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