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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure why adding an essay would water down the applicant pool. Or was this an attempt at a (bad) joke? [/quote]

Tests are objective. But they didn't yield the demographics desired. So they moved on to subjective measures like interviews and essays.

Want me to explain it with smaller words and slower?[/quote]

Haha. you need to test something in yourself. Standardized tests are not necessarily objective -- unless you mean testing, sometimes, who can afford to get their kids better prepped or afford to live in a better school district etc etc. Having a more diverse school filled with kids who want to be there is a good thing. And if it means my white upper class kid doesn't get in, so be it.[/quote]

How old is your kid and where do they go to school?

I’m pretty tired of this holier-than-thou attitude about the virtues of decreasing academic expectations. It doesn’t do anyone any good, especially not promising disadvantaged black kids. [/quote]

I'm not sure why anybody thinks that Walls' new approach will decrease quality of students. I had a child at SWW under the old principal and I think the school has only gotten better with the new administration and the new approach to bringing in students (hence my interest for my other child). It's an imperfect approach no matter what, so I don't understand why doing more to bring in kids who may not have the same advantages vis a vis a standardized test is bad. I have had kids at different schools in DC and I can tell you, if the kid is motivated they will do well at JR, at SWW, at McKinely etc. Walls isn't the only route to success.[/quote]

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