Ballou Senior High School is a historical landmark for the Southeast/Anacostia community. Built in the early 1960's Ballou is a place of learning and growth for inner-city youth for decades. Some Incredible people have come out of Ballou including film director Michael Patrei, and theatre actor and singer Duane Moody. Ballou was named after Dr. Frank Washington Ballou, the superintendent of the DC public schools and has been know for having a excellent music program. The band traveled to Pasadena in 2009 to be in the Tournament of Roses Parade. Ballou has been featured in books and movies by former allumni. I picked Ballou as a topic because I have heard that they are a pretty good school with an amazing band program. I remember Wilson played Ballou one time in football and Ballou was looking pretty good even though they lost. Even though I don’t know many people who go to Ballou I have heard that it’s not all that bad. I think that people have given this school a really bad reputation just because it’s mostly African-Americans who go there and I think that’s unfair. In fact information off the school’s online profile show that the school’s reading and math proficiency levels have gone up by almost 20% in the last 2 year which proves a lot of people wrong.
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