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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My white kid applied to Banneker about 8 years ago. I was very impressed with the school but it was not a good fit for her and she went to Ellington instead.

My impression is that Banneker is very structured, there's a lot of support from staff, and that the students work very hard. The tours at the Saturday morning open house were led by students who were vocal about how much work they had to do, which was one reason my kid got scared off ( in addition to her being more artsy than intellectual I should add). But I would have been happy to have her go there if things had been different.

[b]What has bothered me about past discussions about Banneker on DCUM is the resistance of some white families to even look at the school and instead they are completely willing to reject the school based on assumptions and innuendo[/b]. Go check out the school. It may not be right for your kid but how do you know that unless you visit? [/quote]

That kind of blind bias is almost always based on safety vs. fear.  I think the big issue for people like the previous poster who want to cast doubt on the results at Banneker/McKinley is the fear, conscious or not, that their kid will not measure up.

But who cares?  They'll never feel the school is good enough, so neither high quality academics nor their kids' achievement there would matter one whit.  I see no good reason for anyone - their kid, classmates, teachers, administrators - to have to put up with that.[/quote]

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