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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a fair point that Walls, Wilson and Banneker were never struggling AP HS programs. DCI could also have started out strong.[/quote]

Walls and Banneker are test in schools that self select.  BTW the average pass points at DCI in the IB diploma is just as good as Banneker.

You really don’t know the history of Wilson at all.  It wasn’t always a higher performing school.[/quote]

I know the history of Wilson. The school struggled until Dunbar, the jewel in the DCPS crown until the early 1980s, fell on hard times as the city pushed to desegregate neighborhood schools. This led to a big influx of strong black students into Wilson in just a few years.

DCI could easily offer more test-in classes within the school, and stop socially promoting. They're happy to support acceleration in middle school math, and that's about it  DCI's "advanced" language classes just aren't very advanced.

BASIS doesn't socially promote, the key to their success.[/quote]
Wow did not realize the history of Wilson but makes total
sense because all my black friends graduated from Wilson in the 90’s not sure how they got in because they definitely did not live on that side of town. There was no lottery then. And when Dunbar was segregated way back in the day they graduated top
AA students. This was in the 40’s some attend Ivy League schools. Many AA doctors and lawyers came out
from that school
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