Anonymous wrote:McDuffie is promising “GDS for all.”

Anonymous wrote:DC could easily implement free test prep programs like NYC does. The truth is that they wouldn't be taken advantage of equally across demographics, but would have some impact in terms of increasing diversity of admitted students from a purely ecomomic perspective (or at least certainly has in NYC). However, there is a huge value of education/value of test prep cultural component that it wouldn't and can't address on its own.

That does not strike me as a reason not to have test-in schools.

I also think there are test-in options where you reserve spots for kids from different middle schools and/or wards and/or income levels. Lots of options could be explored.

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Anonymous wrote:The way to solve this would be to have 12-15 test in schools so that pretty much any kid that scores above a threshold lotteries into one of the schools. Singapore does this more or less with the PSLE- if your score in 5th grade or so isn’t good enough, you can’t place into the school.

DC just has too many test in schools, that should almost be the default. That would also release pressure on Banneker, McKinley, and Walls

You need to elect very different people if you want test-in schools. People like Janeese Lewis George would gouge their eyes out. They are in the business of lowering academic standards. It's the only way they know how to erase racial disparities in academic achievement. It's dumb but it's the government we've chosen.

People on the far left believe test-in schools are racist because they end up being dominated by white and Asian students.

Lol when it’s not just ‘hard work’ that gets you into these schools.
Try sending your kid to a sh*t school without supplemental support and see if they can easily get in through ‘hard work.’

I am Asian and I do not think it’s racist to have to get into a school but I do think ignoring the systemic failures is at the very least problematic.

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Anonymous wrote:The way to solve this would be to have 12-15 test in schools so that pretty much any kid that scores above a threshold lotteries into one of the schools. Singapore does this more or less with the PSLE- if your score in 5th grade or so isn’t good enough, you can’t place into the school.

DC just has too many test in schools, that should almost be the default. That would also release pressure on Banneker, McKinley, and Walls

You need to elect very different people if you want test-in schools. People like Janeese Lewis George would gouge their eyes out. They are in the business of lowering academic standards. It's the only way they know how to erase racial disparities in academic achievement. It's dumb but it's the government we've chosen.

People on the far left believe test-in schools are racist because they end up being dominated by white and Asian students.

Lol when it’s not just ‘hard work’ that gets you into these schools.
Try sending your kid to a sh*t school without supplemental support and see if they can easily get in through ‘hard work.’

I am Asian and I do not think it’s racist to have to get into a school but I do think ignoring the systemic failures is at the very least problematic.

This is DC. No one cares about effort. The only reason anyone does well or does poorly is because they have unfair advantages or disadvantages.

Well don’t care about effort because we only care about results.

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Anonymous wrote:The way to solve this would be to have 12-15 test in schools so that pretty much any kid that scores above a threshold lotteries into one of the schools. Singapore does this more or less with the PSLE- if your score in 5th grade or so isn’t good enough, you can’t place into the school.

DC just has too many test in schools, that should almost be the default. That would also release pressure on Banneker, McKinley, and Walls

You need to elect very different people if you want test-in schools. People like Janeese Lewis George would gouge their eyes out. They are in the business of lowering academic standards. It's the only way they know how to erase racial disparities in academic achievement. It's dumb but it's the government we've chosen.

People on the far left believe test-in schools are racist because they end up being dominated by white and Asian students.

Lol when it’s not just ‘hard work’ that gets you into these schools.
Try sending your kid to a sh*t school without supplemental support and see if they can easily get in through ‘hard work.’

I am Asian and I do not think it’s racist to have to get into a school but I do think ignoring the systemic failures is at the very least problematic.

This is DC. No one cares about effort. The only reason anyone does well or does poorly is because they have unfair advantages or disadvantages.

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Anonymous wrote:The way to solve this would be to have 12-15 test in schools so that pretty much any kid that scores above a threshold lotteries into one of the schools. Singapore does this more or less with the PSLE- if your score in 5th grade or so isn’t good enough, you can’t place into the school.

DC just has too many test in schools, that should almost be the default. That would also release pressure on Banneker, McKinley, and Walls

You need to elect very different people if you want test-in schools. People like Janeese Lewis George would gouge their eyes out. They are in the business of lowering academic standards. It's the only way they know how to erase racial disparities in academic achievement. It's dumb but it's the government we've chosen.

People on the far left believe test-in schools are racist because they end up being dominated by white and Asian students.

Lol when it’s not just ‘hard work’ that gets you into these schools.
Try sending your kid to a sh*t school without supplemental support and see if they can easily get in through ‘hard work.’

I am Asian and I do not think it’s racist to have to get into a school but I do think ignoring the systemic failures is at the very least problematic.

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Anonymous wrote:The way to solve this would be to have 12-15 test in schools so that pretty much any kid that scores above a threshold lotteries into one of the schools. Singapore does this more or less with the PSLE- if your score in 5th grade or so isn’t good enough, you can’t place into the school.

DC just has too many test in schools, that should almost be the default. That would also release pressure on Banneker, McKinley, and Walls

You need to elect very different people if you want test-in schools. People like Janeese Lewis George would gouge their eyes out. They are in the business of lowering academic standards. It's the only way they know how to erase racial disparities in academic achievement. It's dumb but it's the government we've chosen.

People on the far left believe test-in schools are racist because they end up being dominated by white and Asian students.

Lol when it’s not just ‘hard work’ that gets you into these schools.
Try sending your kid to a sh*t school without supplemental support and see if they can easily get in through ‘hard work.’

I am Asian and I do not think it’s racist to have to get into a school but I do think ignoring the systemic failures is at the very least problematic.

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Anonymous wrote:The way to solve this would be to have 12-15 test in schools so that pretty much any kid that scores above a threshold lotteries into one of the schools. Singapore does this more or less with the PSLE- if your score in 5th grade or so isn’t good enough, you can’t place into the school.

DC just has too many test in schools, that should almost be the default. That would also release pressure on Banneker, McKinley, and Walls

You need to elect very different people if you want test-in schools. People like Janeese Lewis George would gouge their eyes out. They are in the business of lowering academic standards. It's the only way they know how to erase racial disparities in academic achievement. It's dumb but it's the government we've chosen.

People on the far left believe test-in schools are racist because they end up being dominated by white and Asian students.

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Anonymous wrote:The way to solve this would be to have 12-15 test in schools so that pretty much any kid that scores above a threshold lotteries into one of the schools. Singapore does this more or less with the PSLE- if your score in 5th grade or so isn’t good enough, you can’t place into the school.

DC just has too many test in schools, that should almost be the default. That would also release pressure on Banneker, McKinley, and Walls

You need to elect very different people if you want test-in schools. People like Janeese Lewis George would gouge their eyes out. They are in the business of lowering academic standards. It's the only way they know how to erase racial disparities in academic achievement. It's dumb but it's the government we've chosen.

People on the far left believe test-in schools are racist because they end up being dominated by white and Asian students.

Just Asians really. Let’s not pretend they don’t have real separation from white folks when it comes to test scores.

But I’m all for Asians having the test-in schools that reward hard work, while the rest of us can cruise through at GDS with Duffie and crew.

We don’t want to compete!

I'm Asian and I want this as well.

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Anonymous wrote:The way to solve this would be to have 12-15 test in schools so that pretty much any kid that scores above a threshold lotteries into one of the schools. Singapore does this more or less with the PSLE- if your score in 5th grade or so isn’t good enough, you can’t place into the school.

DC just has too many test in schools, that should almost be the default. That would also release pressure on Banneker, McKinley, and Walls

You need to elect very different people if you want test-in schools. People like Janeese Lewis George would gouge their eyes out. They are in the business of lowering academic standards. It's the only way they know how to erase racial disparities in academic achievement. It's dumb but it's the government we've chosen.

People on the far left believe test-in schools are racist because they end up being dominated by white and Asian students.

Just Asians really. Let’s not pretend they don’t have real separation from white folks when it comes to test scores.

But I’m all for Asians having the test-in schools that reward hard work, while the rest of us can cruise through at GDS with Duffie and crew.

We don’t want to compete!

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Anonymous wrote:The way to solve this would be to have 12-15 test in schools so that pretty much any kid that scores above a threshold lotteries into one of the schools. Singapore does this more or less with the PSLE- if your score in 5th grade or so isn’t good enough, you can’t place into the school.

DC just has too many test in schools, that should almost be the default. That would also release pressure on Banneker, McKinley, and Walls

You need to elect very different people if you want test-in schools. People like Janeese Lewis George would gouge their eyes out. They are in the business of lowering academic standards. It's the only way they know how to erase racial disparities in academic achievement. It's dumb but it's the government we've chosen.

People on the far left believe test-in schools are racist because they end up being dominated by white and Asian students.

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Anonymous wrote:The way to solve this would be to have 12-15 test in schools so that pretty much any kid that scores above a threshold lotteries into one of the schools. Singapore does this more or less with the PSLE- if your score in 5th grade or so isn’t good enough, you can’t place into the school.

DC just has too many test in schools, that should almost be the default. That would also release pressure on Banneker, McKinley, and Walls

You need to elect very different people if you want test-in schools. People like Janeese Lewis George would gouge their eyes out. They are in the business of lowering academic standards. It's the only way they know how to erase racial disparities in academic achievement. It's dumb but it's the government we've chosen.