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[quote=Anonymous][/quote]Pp, I won't argue with the facts as you present them and I appreciate your good intentions but your post comes across as a bit condescending. It almost sounds like you're saying, poor thing, too bad you didn't have more upper middle class students, especially white ones, or you'd have been smarter. Surely you don't mean that, right? Besides, there are thousands upon thousands of students who don't get accepted to Ivy League schools who have worked hard and have gone to excellent K-12 schools. There just isn't room in the Ivy League for everyone who wants to go there. But many of them go on to get good educations and have good careers nevertheless. [/quote]

Not would have been smarter but probably would have been ready to compete with the Metro area competition applying to Ivies if they wanted (as things stand, not uncommon for Banneker kids to apply, and get shot down).   There would be room in the Ivy League for more Banneker kids who were better prepped, and in almost every case they'd come out with little or no student loan debt.  I teach Banneker grads (at UMD in College Park) who almost certainly would have made the cut at an Ivy if they'd come up through ES and MS talented and gifted programs alongside upper middle class peers, as low-income suburban SES kids often do.  Their debt burden coming out of UMD tends to be terrible.  Good careers, sure, but I still don't think that DCPS should get away with serving the brightest low-SES kids so poorly.  Hardly anybody seems to care about Ivy League admissions in DCPS, and in DC Charter for that matter.

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