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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the EdFest meeting on Saturday, there will be no admissions test this year (2022-23 school year) and it sounded like there is no urgency to bring it back.[/quote]

Sad.  DCPS ruined SWW.

Another one bites the dust.[/quote]

The Walls admissions test was very easy for the strongest applicants, a pale shadow of the SSAT in NYC used for admission to Stuyvesant, Bronx Science etc.

The Walls interview has been the bigger problem for years.  It's an open secret that the interview is used to identify minority students who didn't test well, on an easy test for admission to a HS magnet program.  Boston Latin used interviews similarly in the late 1980s and early 1990s, until school leaders were forced to ditch them over 20 years ago, to settle pending litigation.  A suit was brought in 1996 (Mclauglin by McLaughlin vs. Boston School Committee) by a white applicant with a competitive entrance exam score who was denied admission to BL.

I really wish somebody would sue Walls over lack of transparency in admissions.  High time.[/quote]

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