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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The average of a test in school should still be above the national average. They should do better to serve those students.[/quote]

Perhaps the students are being served well, but the SAT is a different kind of beast. [b]For everybody. Absent the test prep that many suburban kids can afford, they may be doing okay and would be as competitive on the test if their parents could afford prep [/b]instead of housing them in homeless shelters after school where they're needed to babysit.

The kids at Banneker face the same traumas and issues as other DC kids. They're just more motivated to do well. [/quote]

This view of SAT prep is dated.  Over the winter, my enterprising 17 year-old nephew ensured that his cash-strapped family paid nothing for extensive SAT test prep beyond their Verizon bill.  He used half a dozen free test prep sites on-line, including Khan Academy and YouTube (where he found many good SAT prep videos), and checked out prep books from the local public library.  He scored in the 700s on all three sections.  I don't doubt that the Banneker kids are motivated, it's the school's lackluster SAT scores, hovering around the national average, which concern me.

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