Reply to Banneker HS - College and Score Outcomes

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Banneker HS - College and Score Outcomes"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a failure to "cater" to high-performing students. It's a failure to meet their education needs.[/quote]

What are you talking about?  The complaint is that a single high-scoring 8th grader didn't get in, even though they're great at the SAT.  Banneker doesn't have to meet the needs of students who do not attend Banneker, and the complaint on the table is absolutely that the school isn't [i]catering[/i] to the kinds of high-SES parents who make their middle schoolers take the SAT to show off.  SAT scores aren't considered in admission to high schools because *middle schoolers don't take the SAT*.

What's fun is the assumption that since this kid is good at math and, by his mom's account, otherwise charming - then all the kids who did get into Banneker must be less intelligent and getting some kind of preferential treatment they don't deserve.  I feel like you people can't even hear yourselves.[/quote]

The problem isn't that the kid didn't get into Banneker. The problem is that the kid didn't get in to any DCPS school where they won't be a total outlier, and so all DCPS has for the kid is a school where even being at grade level is extremely rare.

And no one was complaining about not using SAT scores. The complaint was about not using anything that SAT scores also proxy for. If you look at the SAT scores at Banneker then, yes, obviously kids are getting admitted who aren't where that kid is. Which is totally fine, if DCPS had anything for that kid or other kids like them who aren't zoned for JR. [/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