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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not buying it, and neither are you unless you enroll a white kid at elite, test-in Banneker.

Banneker's avergage SAT scores hover around the national averages for reading and math, and have for many years.  Their average AP scores aren't any better.

Hint: the DC standardized tests are easy for most upper middle-income kids.  I know families whose kids were rejected by Johns Hopkins CTY middle school programs (they take half the applicants) yet scored 95%+ on every CAS they took in MS, as well as the 10th grade test.  
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White families don't enroll their children at Banneker because they don't feel comfortable there.  That's my point. And that's understandable.  But what is not acceptable to me is to discount the work that the students at this school have achieved.  Many Banneker kids had to overcome mountains to get there and go on to college.  And the teachers and administration at Banneker helped them do it. That's why the school is consistently ranked as one of the top high schools in the nation. The majority of Banneker kids don't have the resources to pay for insanely priced SAT/ACT prep courses or hire a tutor for that matter.  They do it on their own.   How would some of you have done on the SATs and ACT without a prep course?  So I'm not buying your drivel either.[/quote]

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