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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Banneker has a ton of homework and very few boys. Not right for my family, but ymmv.[/quote]  This is true. My son is an 11th grade Banneker student.  Banneker is an amazing school, but it's def not a good fit for everyone.[/quote]

Agree but with all the super advanced kids in DCUM going to Basis and complaining that there is not tracking, you'd think the parents would be lining up to go to Banneker. But they're not. And the ONLY reason is because it is such a black school. Which is sad to me because these kids are the cream of the crop. Nobody should have any concerns about peers at this school.[/quote]

That is a load of crap. Go read the other thread on this and read all of the other reasons parent choose other schools. Honest to god I am so tired of this line of attack.[/quote]

Honest to God I'm so sick of having racist neighbors. Yes there have been many threads and while [b]many people consciously don't realize why the opt out of Banneker,[/b] many also say they don't want their kid to be an only. Black kids do it all the time. Your advanced high schooler is resilient and will learn a lot in that scenario but the parents have their own concerns (founded or not).[/quote]

I'm sorry, but you are truly sick to allege that every white parent who chooses a high school in the District of Columbia other than Banneker is subconsciously racist.[/quote]

I don't think PP is claiming that. S/he is saying race has *something* to do with the reason that one of the top performing schools in DC statistically (and certainly the top performing public if the comparison takes demographics into account) has almost no white kids. If parents were guaranteed that it would be 20% white next year (but otherwise remain the same sort of school), I bet it could get to 20% no problem. That obviously doesn't mean that every single parent that didn't send there kid there had a race-related reason for doing so. It doesn't even mean every parent who did have a race-related reason was racist (there are plenty of kids who would do terribly as the only anything for social reasons and I think that's a totally valid concern, especially for parents of kids who already have social anxiety issues). It does, however, mean that the lack of whites at Banneker is at least partially self-perpetuating. If you don't think that's true, you really have your head in the sand.[/quote]

Sure, but what PP actually said was:

"And [b]the ONLY reason[/b] is because it is such a black school."

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