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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ yes, but at Wilson, my DC won't be the only non-AA student, nor the only one scoring advanced.[/quote]

With the boundary chances your DC won't be the only non-AA advanced student at Eastern -- there could be many, especially since Eastern population is small compared to Wilson. Wilson is only 20% White, remember.[/quote]

This is a very real issue. Until there is a critical mass of white kids, the IB white parents are NOT sending their kids there. It just wont happen.  How many white kids have attened Eastern in the last 20 years? none? maybe 5?   It doesn't matter if they have the top scores in the City. it won't happen. Same reason white parents don't choose banneker even though its probably more rigorous than Wilson. Less than 5 white kids.    This is what parents mean when they talk to each other about "we all just need to stick together through each grade"- they mean a cohort of high SES white kids.[/quote]

I actually don't agree that it's a case of how many white kids there are. Certainly, that's not a factor for us. It's that there aren't enough high scoring kids at Eastern to create enough of the advanced AP/IB classes that you really need for rigorous college prep and competitive college applications these days. If you only have a handful of kids able to do honors and AP work per grade you're not going to have too many of those classes, let alone much diversity of options. And I think you see that in the structure of the Eastern IB program - they do IB "American studies" where the RM IB students do AP US History as sophmores in order to do the two year IB European History course and sit the AP and IB exams in that subject. Eastern has IB Spanish. RM has IB Spanish, French and German. Etc.

Eastern may be (and looks like it is) doing a laudable job of teaching kids that come from uneven educational backgrounds and getting a lot of them very proficient in the basics but it does not appear to have as much to offer in rigorous college prep. Nor, a lot of signs that it will in the near to medium term.[/quote]

But if the Eastern population did have the high test scores... then you would move to consider what is now a second-order problem..."My kid will be the only white kid in most of his/her classes".  Either way, he/she won't be attending... Much like they won't be attending Banneker.

And splitting the white student population on Capitol Hill among three different DCPS middle schools and 2-3 DCPCS schools, makes it nearly impossible to get a critical mass of parents who will 'stick it out together' and build a big enough demographic of high-SES white/asian to be self-sustaining.  
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