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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is "oxymoronic"? ALex.[/quote]

This. If they aren't hard to get into, what is the point?[/quote]

DCUM will never be satisfied.

If the application schools are hard to get into, it’s a crisis because “what if my kid doesn’t get into one?”

If the application schools are not so hard to get into, it’s “what’s the point?”

The fact is that Banneker, McKinley, and Duke are considerably more successful than most neighborhood high schools in DC. That’s the point. [/quote]

It’s hard to define success for Duke…it’s not particularly successful from traditional academic metrics…and the arts are a tough business.

So, if it produces Dave Chappell or other famous artists at all…I guess that’s success…but it’s still less than 1% of their grads (which is still much higher than the 0% of famous artists from 98% of all high schools).[/quote]

By conventional academic metrics, Duke is “considerably more successful than most neighborhood high schools in DC.” That’s what I said and it’s objectively true. For example, Duke has the fifth highest average SAT score in DCPS, after Walls, Banneker, J-R, and McKinley Tech.

It’s like some of you want a trophy for living in the town with the most selective academic high school. Sorry, but as a parent I don’t care about that. I want decent schools that my kid can get into. [/quote]

Fifth highest, wow! Come on. Still quite low. Look, I love the idea of an arts magnet and am 1000% on board with the idea that SATs and academics aren't everything. But this is not a flex.[/quote]

Who said it was a flex? Not me. High schools don’t exist so we can flex on each other on DCUM. [/quote]

Telling me my kid will surely get into one of four not-that-great schools doesn't make me feel any better.  [/quote]

I am confused by this. DC has 700,000 people and the lowest ranked of the top 5 is a HS that's just outside of the top 5 percent of all public US HS. For a city with less than half a percent of the country's population.

We need to significantly improve by right neighborhood HS in DC. Period. Everyone regardless of neighborhood should be getting better upper school (and all grade) education without having to drive or commute an hour. But the way people discuss good HS on here is often completely out of touch with reality.[/quote]

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