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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First of all, I am the "wife". Why would you assume that a man posted that? Huh? Secondly, I don't practice anymore. I went into investment banking and have been in the corporate world for a while. I enjoy it a lot better. SAT scores and LSAT scores are important because people claim that you can't pass the bar if you don't do well on these tests, which is false.

I have 2 sons. One son is in DCPS in middle school. The other started at Banneker. I LOVED Banneker. I am its biggest fan. However, Banneker is 75% girls. My son wanted to know every one of them so we put him in an all boys school. I hate that. He got a GREAT education at Banneker. I am amazed. Unfortunately, it was too rigorous for him at that time. He was not mature enough to handle it. That was not Banneker's fault. Banneker loses boys every year because of maturity. Yes, they have poor SAT scores, as this forum likes to point out. [b]The one statistic that has been proven over and over again is that SAT scores are tied to income, not intelligence.[/b] Read Diane Ravich's new book Reign of Error. She talks about it. The environment at Banneker was great.

Fine, don't let your kid go to Banneker. They don't care. They still produce kids who go to ivy league schools every year and get a ton of scholarship money. That's your loss, not theirs.

Be open to the schools. Your kid will do great wherever they go b/c you are their parent. There are great teachers in every single school in this city. We used to live in a very nice suburb with great schools. I honestly cannot see the difference except that the kids and parents looked different. If that's important to you, then it's important to you. I didn't care about that. I wanted my kids to have a diverse experience. [/quote]

Not really true.   SAT scores go up w/ income, but [b]in general[/b] higher IQ's lead to higher salaries, and higher IQ parents tend to have higher IQ kids, so you would expect kids of high SES families to do better. Also, if SAT scores were really tied to income, kids of poor white families with incomes <20K wouldn't be getting better SAT scores than kids of AA families earning more than 200K.[/quote]

IQ is also related to income.  Do higher IQs lead to higher salaries?  There are actual statistics tied to SAT and IQ scores.  Where is your data?  IQs have nothing to do with intelligence.  They have everything to do with exposure.  Even though my mom went to college (with 3 kids) and became a teacher, my dad had a 6th grade education.  I had no idea kids were paying for SAT prep.  Even if I did, my parents couldn't have afforded for me to take it.  I am so sure that had they invested in the prep, I would have done much, much better.  To give you an idea, I didn't think 2x to pay for the Catholic school entrance exam prep.  $2000 - done.  Most kids at Banneker can't afford test prep.  They have a very high FARMs rate.  I would call the school if interested in colleges and scholarships.  I am sure that Ms. Berger and Ms. Hylton would happy to brag.[/quote]

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