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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a topic that should be addressed in your piece – SAT scores.  How does a selective admission school score below the national average on the SAT?

Below is data taken directly from the Banneker web site:
http://benjaminbanneker.k12.dc.us/about_bbahs.html

READING	
DCPS  473
Banneker  496
National  496

MATH
DCPS  466
Banneker  506
National  514

WRITING
DCPS  461
Banneker  486
National  488[/quote]

Those Banneker scores seem surprisingly low. If true, well, that answers the reporter's question.[/quote]

I was thinking the same thing. For a test in school, the scores aren't anything special. It would be helpful to compare them to Wilson and TJ in Va, a real test in school. [b] As for parents not sending their white kids to a majority AA school, that really oversimplifies the issues. its that a white kid would likely be the ONLY white kid in the entire school.   I would worry about bullying, exclusion etc if that were my kid. No one wants to be the ONLY.[/b]  Most white parents have their elem kids in majority non white elem schools but parents worry less about elem.  By middle and high school, parents with high achieving kids (And also likely higher income), know its time to really buckle down and get hard core into academics, IB, AP and honors. Also, middle and HS is when the really serious behvaviroal and violent issues start to play out as the kids get older.  The challenges of very low income kids really becomes a different reality at that age. [/quote]

This. I moved to DC from Europe without much of a clue about race relations in this country. It didn't take long living in DC to realize that there is quite a bit of anti-white sentiment among black people in this town. I am a liberal and know that there are partially understandable reasons for that, but it is this fact that makes me not want to send my kids to a school that is almost entirely or even majority black, regardless of test scores.[/quote]

Agreed. I got a very similar impression when moving here (from California). That attitude, combined with clearly lower test and SAT scores than relevant alternatives, makes it very unlikely our kids will go to Banneker.[/quote]

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