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

Wrong. Given that the girl works 2-3 years ahead of grade level in middle school math, her stellar early SAT scores do no more than reflect her exceptional aptitude and hard work as an 8th grade student of high merit. An entrance exam to Banneker testing above-grade-level math would have further attested to her exceptional achievement.  In another city, where the magnet high school admissions system resembles something akin to a Jeffersonian Meritocracy, such a student would almost certainly been identified as a highly desirable applicant, a stand-out, before being admitted.  In said city, ed system leaders would have followed the logic of snatching her up before some tony private school reeled her in with a juicy merit scholarship or she landed in a prestigious suburban test-in program. But here in the urban academic doldrums--DCPS--she's eminently expendable.  The joke is clearly on our public schools.

People like you clearly lack analytical thinking skills, mired in relativism as you are in your woke miasma.  [/quote]

Purple prose aside: hahaha.  No, that's not how "said cities" work.  Stuyvesant isn't frantically competing to keep kids out of private schools.  Boston Latin isn't snatching kids out of the jaws of BB&N.  No public school "competes" for kids like this outside of your fever dreams.  They're not worried about kids escaping their grasp to the wicked world of privates.  [/quote]

Actually, a lot of schools do seek excellence.  DCPS just looks for excuses.[/quote]

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