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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think she’s spot on with the reasoning for moving Banneker. Whites are now mingling with browns/blacks and with a new building with an established track record of a high quality school, this is an “If we build,they will come” example.[/quote]

+1. Just build it. [/quote]

Mingling, seriously?

75.9%  Black, non-Hispanic
2.7%  Asian
18.0%  Hispanic / Latino
0.2%  Native American / Alaska Native
0.2%  Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander
1.0%  White non-Hispanic
1.9%  Multiracial

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. [/quote]

+1000

Banneker is the best public school in DC and even though it's 1% white we've got this jagoff trying to claim it as an achievement of white intercession.  What a joke.[/quote]

I think you both missed the point. Perhaps the move will draw more white kids to the school. [/quote]

What makes you think that is a desired outcome?[/quote]

I don't get it - is Banneker maxed out? Are people clamoring to get in who can't now get it? That was not my understanding. I also understood it to be fairly specialized, like BASIS - heavy on the academics and light on say, sports. Not all kids will want that. [/quote]

Banneker is test-in, and yes, [b]many [/b]people want in that can't get in.  With Title 1 accreditation it has 100% graduation rate and among the best outcomes in the District (compare to SWW, which is 15% disadvantaged).  White parents on this thread acting like they'll deign to consider it (and implying their kids' presence will improve it) by allowing their kids to "mingle" with the high achieving "brown" cohort at Banneker is racist and foolish.  The idea that Banneker needs to, or should seek to draw white students is based on a false premise -- that white students will improve a school that is already the best in the District.  Keep that attitude and your kids at Wilson or SWW.  [/quote]

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