2 Black sisters i know who are in their school's Top Twenty have 4.2's, take all honors classes, BUT only scored a 15 on their ACT assesment, and a 880/890 on their SAT. I have a 3.5, take all honors classes, and scored a 29 on ACT and a 1210 on SAT. We both grew up in the inner-cty.The difference between us? I attend a predominantly White school out of our district, while they attend our district's all-Black school.
i used to hate it, cuz half my friends went to the Black school, but now that i'm a senior......i'm GLAD i attended this school.
now b4 you jump down my throat, let me set up my case. As much as I support HBCU's and intend on going to one(FAMU, NCA&T or Hampton), i think when it comes to your college-prep years(high school), attending a White school gives you an advantage. Many(not all, but many) inner-cty schools are sent teachers who REALLY don't want to be there, and who already have low expectations of their Black students. Therefore, they don't push a challenging enough curriculum for their students to score high on standardized tests. There is also less money pumping through inner-city schools, because money is sent to schools based on attendance, and we all know how many people be skippin' class.
I'm not saying these schools perform poorly because they are Black, but i am saying that socioeconomics play a huge role in education, and most Black schools are located in unstable economic areas.
my question to you: To what degree do you believe the racial composition and location of a high school affects how well its students will perform on standardized tests? Would you send YOUR kids to a White school if the one in your district was substandard?
I could seriously write a damn book on this topic :x
but I wont...
but at my school (Redan HS)...we have some of the highest scores in the county on the GHSGT (GA HS Graduation Test)...but there are alot of students that really dont take the SAT or any other standardized test that seriously...and nor do the sorry **** teachers... They're constantly shoving the GHSGT down our throats and hardly EVER give us any SAT Prep (there's a SAT Prep class but that's a joke :roll: )...It's like
"We just want you to graduate, we don't care what you do afterwards."
uhh...so...I would let my child decide where he/she wants to go...because even I sometimes envy schools like Parkview and Chamblee but I wouldn't want to go to ANY school other than the great Redan High
I went from Columbia high (black school) to Collins Hill High School (one of the best white schools in the state) and I hated the social atmosphere. But when it comes down to it in GA gov't funding doesn't come from attendence, it comes from district property level. And there were more $600,000+ houses on my white neighborhood than back in decatur. That meant more money for resources, teachers, and extra currics. That played a major role in my education.
Another aspect of it was the fact that the white kids in my new world took a more active role in their educational and political lives than the black kids did and that came from the way they were raised. Ya'll know the stats and have heard the arguments, so i dont think i have to say much else about this topic.
2 Black sisters i know who are in their school's Top Twenty have 4.2's, take all honors classes, BUT only scored a 15 on their ACT assesment, and a 880/890 on their SAT. I have a 3.5, take all honors classes, and scored a 29 on ACT and a 1210 on SAT. We both grew up in the inner-cty.The difference between us? I attend a predominantly White school out of our district, while they attend our district's all-Black school.
i used to hate it, cuz half my friends went to the Black school, but now that i'm a senior......i'm GLAD i attended this school.
I agree with you 100%. I attend a predominantly white school- which I have done my whole life and I got a perfect score on the ACT reading and a 25 overall :idea: . My thing about these HBCUs are they are so damn slow. PWI hit you up quicker than they change their underware. Not to mention how they hand out scholarships not just because you are black, but because you are a smart black attending yet another pwi!
