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Whatever.  My kid is in DCPS.  He has every opportunity I had and I was raised in HoCo, MD.  Give me a break.  I don't really care if folks on this forum only care about SAT scores.  The funny thing is that I did terrible on my SATs, aced the bar exam and am now the big boss and make a ton of money.  Boy, those SAT scores really put me on a path to poverty.  [/quote]

This is not about SAT scores, it is about college readiness.  Clearly you went to law school, somewhere.  Without serious intervention I would bet the majority of the kids from our "top" schools will never get there.

Well I guess the real question is are you going to KEEP your kid in DCPS for middle and high school, while making a ton of money?  Wilson or BASIS?  Again, SWW #266, 50% college readiness, Banneker #466, 47.whatever, Duke Ellington 1772 27%?  McKinley fuggedabout it.  And Wilson is not even ranked or I did not get that far.

My dh comes from poverty and managed to pull himelf out through hard work despite an early shitty education.  No way would he do that to his kids just because he survived.  Are you saying you will?  Making them work hard is one thing.  Putting them at an obvious disadvantage when you have the money to do otherwise is incomprehensible to me.[/quote]

Hey Big Boss Man, you gonna man up and answer the question?  BTW, acing the bar exam is usually irrelevant - associates have already started at Biglaw, and the scores are never posted (at least I never looked at mine, kind of a pass/fail test).  Acing the bar exam usually means nada.  Failing it ? Whole other story.

Something may smell here, although you never claimed to be a partner, just "the big boss" who makes "a ton of money".  Maybe you don't boss around other lawyers.  What does your wife think about the idea of keeping your apparently only child in DCPS as opposed to going private or moving to an area in the suburbs zoned for a clearly better MS and HS?

Since you can obviously afford a multitude of options, and must not have become "the big boss" because of stupidity, I would be really genuinely interested in what your plans are for your son after DCPS elementary school who may be the heir apparent to some kind of business I am not understanding.

Do share what the school of hard knocks taught you about how to educate your only son, please.  That only law school and "acing the bar exam" count? And that sucking at the SAT's is fine by you for your son not only yourself?  Clearly cost is no factor, so please we are all waiting with baited breath to hear what someone who may have come from poverty and has apparently unlimited financial resources has decided about how to educate his only heir.  NB  Banneker kids apparently cannot do math, and I assume you can - including statistics, probabilities, possibilities, etc., especially where they involve your child. [/quote]

First of all, I am the "wife".  Why would you assume that a man posted that?  Huh?  Secondly, I don't practice anymore.  I went into investment banking and have been in the corporate world for a while.  I enjoy it a lot better.  SAT scores and LSAT scores are important because people claim that you can't pass the bar if you don't do well on these tests, which is false.

I have 2 sons.  One son is in DCPS in middle school.  The other started at Banneker.  I LOVED Banneker.  I am its biggest fan.  However, Banneker is 75% girls.  My son wanted to know every one of them so we put him in an all boys school.  I hate that.  He got a GREAT education at Banneker.  I am amazed.  Unfortunately, it was too rigorous for him at that time.  He was not mature enough to handle it.  That was not Banneker's fault.  Banneker loses boys every year because of maturity.  Yes, they have poor SAT scores, as this forum likes to point out.  The one statistic that has been proven over and over again is that SAT scores are tied to income, not intelligence.  Read Diane Ravich's new book Reign of Error.  She talks about it.  The environment at Banneker was great.

Fine, don't let your kid go to Banneker.  They don't care.  They still produce kids who go to ivy league schools every year and get a ton of scholarship money.  That's your loss, not theirs.

Be open to the schools.  Your kid will do great wherever they go b/c you are their parent.  There are great teachers in every single school in this city.  We used to live in a very nice suburb with great schools.  I honestly cannot see the difference except that the kids and parents looked different.  If that's important to you, then it's important to you.  I didn't care about that.  I wanted my kids to have a diverse experience. 
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