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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a white parent and I urged my Washington Latin 8th grader to consider applying to Banneker-- and to SWW and to several private schools and also our IB high school, Eastern.  He refused to even look elsewhere.  (We aren't IB for Wilson.)  He loves Latin too much to consider anything else.  To say that makes him racist is absurd.

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Racist, no, short-sighted, possibly. Maybe we should all wake up and smell the coffee about charter high schools in this city - they can be PC fun for kids without being first-rate academically.  1 AP class with a score of 3 isn't a high bar to clear for a group of kids who've been studying the ancient and modern worlds seriously for 7 or 8 years.  Not at all, yet less than 20% has been pulling it off at Latin in the past couple of years. Sounds like he should have looked at St. Anselm's, mom, whatever his skin color.  [/quote]

Catholic schools are the bottom of the barrel. Maybe the suburbs. [/quote]

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