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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly, there's not enough white students to make a difference in any school population at high school.  It will never-ever happened and this hope that Eastern will become Wilson East was the same wishes for McKinley and Banner too.  Currently the top students at Eastern are Asian - Americans and African-American and there's one white student at the school at the school.  So we are diverse.[/quote]

I'm 16:43 and my point is [i][b]not[/b][/i] that there's not 'enough white students to make a difference' -  the race of the student body doesn't matter to me at all, beyond, I guess, a vague preference for diversity -  what does matter is the number of students ready to take rigorous, advanced, college prep classes, which Eastern does lack. Should my kid turn out to be math/science oriented I will absolutely encourage her to apply to Banneker. But Eastern's a far cry from that.[/quote]

This. My daughter's Asian, so she'll be part of a small minority at ANY high school in DC. I don't care how many white kids there are, I care how many kids there are working at an advanced level.

I'm good with Stuart Hobson for MS -- it's nowhere near Deal, but at least it's comparable to Hardy, as far as student performance goes -- but right now for HS I'm pinning my hopes on one of the test-in programs. Fortunately, she's still in elementary, so we have some time to see if Eastern can bring up its numbers of advanced performers.[/quote]

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