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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Banneker was founded with the fairly modest aim of being a "college prep" high school, a place where good kids that were decent students could learn in a less disruptive environment than the standard DCPS high schools of the time. It was never meant to be a local version of TJ or Stuyvesant.  As it is, it took a tremendous amount of political battling and comprising to get it approved in the face of opponents who saw the program as "elitist", and anything more "elite" never would have gotten past the school board of the era.

It does a good job of being the "college prep" school that it was meant to be, but it just isn't that impressive compared to Wilson or the average suburban public high school. [/quote]

+1. It is essentially a glorified KIPP high school. Better than Ballou no doubt, yet way behind competitive private, Walls and even Wilson. It all depends on the options each student has.[/quote]

Based on what?  SAT scores?  Everything else Banneker is going better.  It is not a glorified KIPP.  Have you ever been to KIPP or Banneker that you can make that statement?  KIPP has been struggling b/c their kids can't stay in college.  It's a military style approach.  Banneker students are very successful in college and it's just an academically rigorous school.  Not KIPP.[/quote]Agree with you pp.  The earlier pps are just ignorant.[/quote]

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