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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where was the insult? The point is fair. DCPS students should be better prepped for admission to Walls, particularly poor kids. Interviews can't fix weak prep.  
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Who said they aren’t prepared? You make a lot of assumptions about kids at Walls and yes it is insulting.[/quote]

Absolutely not. Look at the magnet schools in San Fran and NYC, and how they set up lower-income, highly-intelligent (often first gen immigrant) kids to succeed (by offering free test prep and then sending them to rigorous, challenging schools.)

I'm entirely sure that you are a white liberal woman. [/quote]

+100. Exactly right. This NYC magnet high school grad looked into Walls. Kid got a spot but didn't take it. The interview was a complete joke.[/quote]

This is not NYC.  Why is everyone on this board comparing the two?  You all went to Bronx Science.  Congrats.  Move to NYC and apply there.  Some of your kids’ classmates at Ivies will have graduated from Walls.[/quote]

I went to Lowell San Fran, my spouse to Brooklyn Tech.

Why compare anything when it's easier not to compare? Why not just whitewash the reality that Walls is seriously second rate as compared to bona fide urban magnet programs in other large US cities if it makes you feel good? While you're at it, wish not away the truth that Walls is on a downward trajectory, graduating the first class comprised without standardized testing in admissions, a shameful, highly politicized development.

The fact that a small number of Walls students crack Ivies and other highly competitive colleges nonetheless, mainly by dint of their hard work outside the classroom, is neither here nor there.[/quote]

You're completely wrong about the downward trajectory, at least as of this year's senior class. More than "a small number" have already gotten into Ivies and other highly competitive colleges, and we're only in early decision time right now.

But based on my family's 3.5 years of experience there, I completely agree that Walls is second rate. HOWEVER, it's what we've got. We don't have Bronx Science or Lowell and never will, at least not in a reasonable time frame. Wouldn't it make more sense to try to press for things we maybe *could* have, like a more meaningful selection process and more challenging academic offerings?[/quote]

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