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[quote=Anonymous][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 [b]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[/b]*.

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]

I feel the need to defend this PP.

1. Parents like this have their kids take the SAT so that they can qualify for CTY. Then they send them to CTY so they can take challenging classes with other nerds and have the time of their lives. IYKYK. They aren't doing it to "show off" but for a much more tangible outcome.

2. In any other city, kids like this would ace the entrance exam for the application/magnet high school. Then they could go to a school where they are challenged and set on a path to succeed.

That's where this parents frustration lies. [/quote]

Getting into Blair Magnet or TJ is incredibly difficult and not guaranteed. Neither are the programs in DC. I wonder if there's entitlement on those subforums as well.[/quote]

I'm not looking for a guarantee of anything, I'm looking for a process that both offers these slots to the kids who can most use them and offers some ability to plan to their parents. I grew up in a city - not New York - which had test-in options, and it meant if you had a kid who was really bright, you knew there would be a school they could go to which would make a reasonable attempt to educate them. DCPS doesn't have that. The stakes are super high for Latin and Walls and they pull kids from elementary and middle schools they'd otherwise stay in part because you have zero ability to make predictions about where your kid is going to get into high school, so you have to exit in 5th grade. [/quote]

*Latin and BASIS[/quote]

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