4:32, get real you transplanted soul. Everyone knows that Banneker was a Junior High School for decades. Then it was closed and reopened as an application only high school by Vincent Reed, Superintendent. The spirit was to attract a diverse group as it was the only way the school board was going to sanction the school. History lesson for the transplant soul; the superintendent resigned on the same day that the school board approved Banneker. I was just a teenager but I remember the heated arguments about Banneker and it how it was being created for whites. Don't under estimate the volvo brigade they would have driven all over this city to have a school with a substantial percentage of students to attend. Unfortunately, what happened to Banneker decades earlier happened to Eastern during their relaunch. Reading history doesn't compare to those who lived it.

Wonderful news for this school!

Anonymous wrote:Will they expand the faculty?

I'm sure. The class sizes are not that small.

Will they expand the faculty?

Anonymous wrote:According to a former superitendent (Ackerman) it should've been closed. According to the school board years ago it should've never been created. It was supposedly to attract whites back to our public schools system. I guess they all can't be wrong. Keep hope alive and survive Banneker.

Why and why?

Also, no it was not created with the intention of "attracting whites back into our public system." It was created to be a Middle School and became a magnet school in 1980. Seriously, nobody was expecting white people to drive to 8th & Euclid in the 80s. No-one thinks that would work now, either. This is completely imaginary, perhaps you're the McKinley booster who wants to close Banneker and re-route those students over to McKinley. That's the only way your argument makes sense.

Anonymous wrote:According to a former superitendent (Ackerman) it should've been closed. According to the school board years ago it should've never been created. It was supposedly to attract whites back to our public schools system. I guess they all can't be wrong. Keep hope alive and survive Banneker.

What has this got to do with anything, bitter and twisted. Ackerman, hmmmmmmm, she was the voice of authority, I don't think so!!!

According to a former superitendent (Ackerman) it should've been closed. According to the school board years ago it should've never been created. It was supposedly to attract whites back to our public schools system. I guess they all can't be wrong. Keep hope alive and survive Banneker.

Anonymous wrote:according to Kaya Henderson's logic it should have been closed.

No. The school is not underenrolled. They only accept about 400 students. It's application only. The school facility is pretty large. I hope they don't lower their standards. That would be a shame. Even though the building is older, it is very well kept.

according to Kaya Henderson's logic it should have been closed.

Banneker is a pretty large school and the capacity for that building is about 700. As for the need to have the building remodeled is all relative. Quite frankly they are producing great students from that relic of a building. The lure is not to lower the standards but recruit harder from the pool that's eligible. Howard's University Math and Science MS is the best little secret for AA students. They developed a partnership without all of the busy-bodies.

Isn't this an application school? Where are all these kids who qualify for the program going to come from or are they going to lower standards?

They need to renovate first.

What are the chances that this will lead to some white kids entering Banneker?

where are they going to put the extra students?

Bigger is better. Small schools can't survive. This is wonderful news for the AA students. Kaya's on the ball with this move.