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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of all the work DCPS need to do, integrating Banneker doesn’t make the top 400.  It’s a high-performing ~all-black school. DC needs more of those, not less. [/quote]

Good lord, this. [/quote]

+100

Work on integrating white enclaves. [/quote]

The “white enclaves” are actually amazingly diverse.  They are just low on African Americans.

In any event, whether Banneker is all-Black or not, the fact is that most DCPS schools will be majority Black because that is the demographics of the system.  You can’t meaningfully integrate all the schools with the existing enrollment.[/quote]
You definitely can't meaningfully integrate schools without making a concerted effort to do so.  Far more whites and Asians would enroll in DCPS if their options were better.  A family like ours wouldn't have bothered with even a DCPS elementary program 10 or 15 years ago.  We'd have gone charter, or moved to the burbs, by the time our kids were 8 or 9 years old.  Things can change.

Banneker could offer an IB Diploma program to rival DCI's if DCPS were to set up a serious test-in program.  Banneker's new building, in a fairly central location in the City, is much much better than that of BASIS, and Washington Latin. The Metro area burbs provide good test-in models. [/quote]

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