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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually white kids at Washington-Lee HAVE achieved higher SAT scores than white kids at Yorktown for the last four years in a row.  Three and four years ago it wasn't by that much, but for the last two years it's been a difference of over thirty points.  (It was 60 points in 2014.)

I can't speak to the college question except that I saw somewhere on this board that more W-L than Yorktown kids got admitted to ivies either this year or last.[/quote]
 The greatest inference to be drawn here is that there are some white parents at W-L who could not give a hoot about the sub-par performance of non-white students at W-L compared to Yorktown. That is a shame, since there are a whole lot more of them at W-L at Yorktown.[/quote]

Of course I care about the performance of all the kids at the school.  But I'm a white parent who is zoned for W-L who is trying to fight back against the perception that the school is underperforming compared to Yorktown scores.  The FARM kids at W-L will not have a better experience if all the rich (probably white) kids get scared of the test scores and move somewhere else and their PTA and other volunteer contributions vanish. [b] The reality is that if you are white your kid will likely achieve better results at W-L than at Yorktown (as the test scores indicate)[/b], while at the same time keeping your kid at W-L despite its higher FARMs rate than Yorktown helps the FARMs kids if you support the school with $ or volunteerism.  In that way it's a bit like ATS except without the lottery.  So, win-win.[/quote]

There are twice as many white kids taking the SAT at Yorktown than there are at WL.  And WL has a magnet program that attracts white kids.  These two facts alone account for the slight discrepency between reported SAT scores for white kids in both schools.  It has nothing to do with WL offering a superior education.  You know zero about statistics.

I'm not saying that Yorktown is better than WL.  I'm just saying that WL isn't better than Yorktown.

PTA contributions?  Who gets involved in PTA at the high school level??     [/quote]

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