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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think SWW will go to a more complete, holistic admissions criteria to keep it a diverse (not majority white or asian) school. Today it doesn't involve teacher recommendation, an essay or review of extracurriculars.

You also need to keep your mind open to other high quality options, such as Banneker, or even staying at BASIS.[/quote]

Don't agree. The national trend is that strong test-in high schools offering "holistic admissions," including an entrance exam like Walls', get sued by whites eventually.  This happens because some white kids who are rejected invariably score a good deal higher on the entrance exam than some minorities who are admitted.  In this decade, the whites win.  Meanwhile, schools offering exam-based admissions that are overwhelmingly white and Asian get sued by civil liberties groups, and the schools win.

Right, high quality options like Banneker, where SAT scores hover around the national average, and BASIS, without a gym, stage, library, high school sports, option to take college classes, or much in the way of an extra curricular program.  City parents of strong high school students outside the Wilson District who can't afford privates generally want Walls.  They want the school that produced 5 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists this year (versus none at Banneker or Wilson) AND has decent facilities.

When it becomes clearer that most of the strongest 8th grade public school students in the city are white or Asian, but most of the Walls 9th graders are not, fed up parents won't take no for an answer forever.   [/quote]

#MAGA, right buddy?? (Make America Great Again) Go to Trump Tower and make out with your Orange God. [/quote]

Come on, PP. NP here- but the PPP made a really good point, citing facts, and not suggesting what is "right", but suggesting what is likely.

I find it interesting. Should DC be able to socially engineer its schools like this? The lottery for charters is race-blind. [/quote]

Be careful with "race-blind".  Poll taxes were "race-blind".[/quote]

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