I meant "demands of Banneker". Sorry.

Walls prompt-How should parents respond if a kid gets a bad grade?
Banneker
-Myschooldc-How will you handle the demands of Walls?
-At interview-What club would you start?

Thanks! Super helpful. I really appreciate the inside knowledge here.

My son said his Walls prompt this year was pros and cons of AI.

My kid chose the Banneker prompt to describe an extracurricular club you would found at the school.

Our Walls prompt was if PE was a useful class to have in school. The Banneker in person prompt my kid chose (it's a choice of 5 prompts) was how do you thnk the future of education will evolve. The Banneker prompt that you submit in myschooldc was asking about how you will manage the workload with social/emotional demands. McKinley was an informational text and you had to repond to it with details from the text and your own personal info.

Anonymous wrote:Paraphrasing the Walls prompt my kid had this year:

Should life skills / home ec be taught in public schools?

Quoting myself here. It was also not an essay - it was a long paragraph.

Paraphrasing the Walls prompt my kid had this year:

Should life skills / home ec be taught in public schools?

McKinley's essay is during the interview session. Based on the hazy recollection I was able to elicit from my kid, it had some text to read and then a question about how you would respond in a dangerous situation, referring both to the text and personal experience.

Coolidge Early College requires the essay within the application. The question this year was "What are your college/career goals after high school? What steps have you already taken to prepare for those goals? How do you believe the Coolidge High School Early College Academy will help you achieve those goals?"

I know lots of folks are still in the throes of this year's admission cycle, but I'm helping some DCPS /Charter students start thinking about high school applications for next year, for DC's selective admissions programs. Is anyone willing to share what the essay questions were--either the required prepared ones (as with Banneker) or the on-site writing prompt for the school your kid was applying to? The written essay prompt that would go in with an application isn't available anymore on the MySchoolDC site. I know these questions may/will change each year, but it can be helpful to find a through-line and overlap, even when the schools might be quite different--Duke v. McKinley, for example. (And yes, I've reached out to schools to ask but this board can sometimes be more responsive.)
TIA!