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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

Of course they go Ivy and get money. All the right boxes are checked.[/quote]

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