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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not buying that expensive test prep is the key to success, or that any DC public school is producing students with 8 Ivy League acceptances.  Such stories make the front pages of newspapers of national record.  And I've heard more than enough excuses for Banneker's unimpressive  scores.

I grew up in a low-income family (qualifying for free lunch through MS, though my proud immigrant parents wouldn't accept the food).  We couldn't afford SAT prep classes and I worked in the family business from grade school, yet was a PSAT National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist in NY, a state with one of the country's highest PSAT cut-off scores.  My younger sister was also a semifinalist, and as was my lower middle-class spouse and her brother.

What I had that the Banneker and Eastern kids lack were mostly high SES white and Asian classmates.  Frequent visits to their homes taught me how mainstream upper middle-class Americans live - with reliable cars, backyard pools, and trips to Disneyland and the Grand Canyon.  I wanted in and asked classmates' professional parents how to get there.

DCPS, please end apartheid education on Capitol Hill past elementary school and Stuart-Hobson.  Find a way to integrate Eastern in five years or less.  The half-baked IB Diploma Program pretty clearly isn't going to do it.

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The Banneker students absolutely made national news. The first one was all over everyone's FB feed...including my own. I would post a link to the story or at least give you his name so you could look it up but I'm busy and on my phone. But I'm sure a quick Google will bring up the story for you. The second boy's story was a bit overshadowed but also made national news.[/quote]

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