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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a topic that should be addressed in your piece – SAT scores. How does a selective admission school score below the national average on the SAT? Below is data taken directly from the Banneker web site: http://benjaminbanneker.k12.dc.us/about_bbahs.html READING DCPS 473 Banneker 496 National 496 MATH DCPS 466 Banneker 506 National 514 WRITING DCPS 461 Banneker 486 National 488[/quote] Those Banneker scores seem surprisingly low. If true, well, that answers the reporter's question.[/quote] Apples to apples, statistics class anyone? The fact that Banneker is WAY above national black SATs and almost on par with all races nationally, is very compelling. This topic gets raised all the time and parents always site the SATs knowing damn well it's not apples to apples and there is an obvious racial gap when it comes to testing and Banneker does an excellent job bridging that gap. National Black SATs Reading: 428 Math: 428 Writing: 417[/quote] Interesting indeed, and IRRELEVANT to OP's question. Why don't white students go to Banneker? Because their SAT scores are surprisingly low for a selective admission school, clearly lower than other alternatives white students have. (I prefer to avoid race-specific thinking and metrics, but this is the only way to answer a race-specific question)[/quote] How do you not get it? The black students at Banneker do better than DCPS and their black peers nationally (by a large margin). [b]Logically speaking, there is no reason not to believe that your white student won't do better than his peers nationally.[/b] It doesn't answer OP's question but it certainly counters anyone's answer that SATs aren't up to par. [/quote] I don't think the bolded statement is at all true. In any case, the SAT scores still answer the question; a large percentage of white parents are using the amount that test scores are above national average as an important proxy in deciding where to send their kids. I think this includes a lot of white parents who are nominally pro-diversity. I think a fairly common position is "I want to send my kid to a school with high test scores, and if that school is also diverse, that's a nice plus." [/quote] +1. Previous PP is surprisingly dense. Imagine DC had a new selective admission school, with majority Native American student body, and these SAT results: Reading: 328 Math: 328 Writing: 317 Do you believe current Banneker parents would send their kids there? Do you believe they would even care whether those results are higher or lower than national Native American SAT scores?[/quote] I doubt any current Banneker parent would send their kids to such a school. Probably not even a hypothetical Native American family, if they have better options. Mystery solved.[/quote]
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