Reply to Thinking of sending my white child to Banneker

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Thinking of sending my white child to Banneker"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[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 despite many attending poor performing ES and MSs. They should be celebrated and DCPS should be studying what happens there to try and replicate it.

[/quote]

Banneker’s doing well, and that’s great, but they have a *very* low percentage of at-risk kids compared to DCPS as a whole. If you look at most other “successful” DC schools, they are replicating that. [/quote]

But higher than the schools on comparable academic footing.  No one is comparing Banneker academically to Dunbar or Eastern -- the comparison is to SWW and it compares favorably.[/quote]

Favorably?

163 points behind on average is a huge gap.

SWW is to Banneker what Banneker is to Duke Ellington.[/quote]

Wait until College Board re-calibrates based on adversity scores.  That gaps will close.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics