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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

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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]

The College Board is NOT recalibrating anything. Adversity scores are to add context to the test score IF a college chooses to use them. They are separate and apart from the SAT results.

Many colleges are already trying to create this sort of database on their own or buy it from other vendors. College Board is standardizing it, and providing it as a service to make it more convenient, and of course to try and make themselves more indispensable to colleges.

It is a controversial initiative, but it benefits no one to misrepresent what is being done. [/quote]

so you agree t's ok for colleges to use a weighted scoring for consideration for admissions decisions, which serves the real purpose of the SAT, rather than some pissing contest for parents to establish HS bragging rights?[/quote]

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