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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK so what kid is not getting into these two popular application schools because they can’t just “win” via testing without having to interview well, get recommendations, or write an essay? And which kid is getting in who wouldn’t have because of the test?

When I think about those marginal cases, I at least don’t favor the test. (Even though I am a nerdy test-kid, all grown up.)[/quote]

DCPS should be trying to provide academically appropriate options for all students. Because DCPS is not interested in or able to educate kids who are above grade level at their non-JR neighborhood schools, the only way they can do this is to offer those kids slots at selective high schools. The reason to use tests is because they give you the best information about whether the kid is going to benefit from the coursework available at the selective high schools. It's not about liking these kids more as human beings or whatever, it's about thinking they should be in schools which can educate them. Essays and recommendations and interviewing well do not tell you, is this the kid who is going to need the classes that their neighborhood school doesn't have?

There should also be schools for kids who are hard-working but not academically ahead -- and there are! McKinley, the Coolidge early college program, Bard: they're all providing opportunities for motivated kids who aren't (mostly) at grade level. But there should be at least one school in DC where if you're the kid who is really ahead, you will get in and they will educate you. It doesn't need to be Banneker. I don't really care which one it is. But there should be one of these. [/quote]

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