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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Sounds like a post full of hateful white people, as usual.[/b]  Affirmative action is there for a reason!  You sound so excited that the next administration is going to “come at it hard”.  Compare the schools without showing off how racist you are.  Ok?[/quote]

I wouldn't say it's just white people.  Plenty of Asians are complaining too because they think they're special for paying boatloads of money to be able to regurgitate facts/stats on tests.[/quote]. Shame on those Asians, for scoring high on tests. They need to be stopped.[/quote]

For having access to the expensive prep and all the other financial advantages that allowed them to “score high on tests” when low SES POC kids did not.

FTFY.[/quote]

There are a good many low-income minority students in this city in public schools who score high on SATs and a slew of APs, particularly at BASIS.  They tend not to have access to expensive prep.  What they have is drive, and, with BASIS, a school that preps them intensely for SATs and and APs in a way that Banneker doesn't seem to. To my knowledge, even the highest-performing Banneker students take just 3 or 4 AP exams. Basis won't graduate students who take fewer than six. [/quote

Are there? BASIS has 9% at-risk kids compared with 20% at Banneker and almost half at DCPS in general. At-risk isn't going to encompass every low-income kid, but considering that BASIS is also almost half white in a city with almost no poor white families, it looks like BASIS is just mostly serving an UMC population. (And that Banneker, for that matter, is also serving a.less-poor group of kids than DCPS, although not to the same degree.) [/quote]

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