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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Bucking the curve runs both ways here - kids who score low but achieve at first-rate colleges and in professional jobs, and kids who score high despite being low-SES.

As long as Banneker's student body remains nearly 100% black, average SAT scores won't nudge up much.  Do the Banneker parents care?   Apparently not.   The connection between kids having a good many upper-middle-class peers (read mostly white in DC) and broad enough horizons to make a smooth transition to college and life beyond is lost on them.  The best and brightest low-SES AA kids pay for adult myopia yet again.   Mediocre SAT scores, mediocre academics.   The school's lovely social environment and application admissions can't change that.
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I don't understand your premise given that Banneker kids are going to great colleges and are successful there.  I believe Banneker students receive more scholarship money than any other high school in DC.

I am a highly educated parent.  I feel like Banneker is the best kept secret.  Iactually don't care if white parents ever send their kids there.  More for us.  FYI, there are white, Latino and Asian kids there.[/quote]

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