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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Qualifed[/b] RM KIDS have [b]always been able to choose IB in 1th grade without testing[/b].   This is not a change.  This is [b]how
 IB works at other mcps high schools[/b] as well.  [/quote]

Without a consistent criteria to identify the Kids "qualified" is subjective term. Even if RM kids were "always" able to get into the county wide "magnet" program without testing, it is still wrong for two reason. One non-RM kids have been given a much stiffer bar to jump to the same program in 8th grade, and non-RM kids are not given any information about this easy path for RM kids for a county-wise highly gifted "magnet" program. RM IB has been advertised as an unique program much different than any other MCPS IB program. So, that argument that it is okay to do it in RM beacuse other MCPS school does it that way does not hold.

MCPS and RM cannot have it both way. They cannot advertised the program to be HG magnet and take MCPS money for magnet program and then operate it like every other IB school in MCPS.

The magnet kids and parents who make many personal sacrifices to join RM, must not be "baited and switched" to the same program they could have accessed in another HS in MCPS. RM cannot enjoy the test score and intellectual diversity that comes with the magnet students without giving them the unique program they were promised for. This is fraud![/quote]

Too bad these parents did not take the time to look at the RM website where it is all spelled out![/quote]

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