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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The worst thing about this is the loss of the incredible magnet teachers that we will have at both the RM IB and Blair SMCS. My son is a student at the Blair Magnet program, and their math teacher has a PHD in math from Yale! Other teachers are equally qualified and hold PHDs from many renowned universities in the country. [b]There is no way that these teachers will opt for teaching county magnet programs[/b], as they are more than qualified to teach college level classes with much more pay as well. [b]They stay because they enjoy teaching a group of highly motivated students who love to learn[/b]. The loss of teachers will be something we won't be able to replace, even after Taylor is gone.[/quote]

Seems like you are making a lot of assumptions here, about the teachers and the future students.[/quote]

Not that pp, but my child also goes to the same program, and more than one teachers told their personal stories to students about why they chose to stay in Blair SMACS, and the reasons are highly similar to what described above. They will choose to leave the magnet as it's not rewarding anymore to themselves, and practically many of the current courses will not exist anymore due to lack of enrollment. [/quote]
If true, those teachers are not great in reasoning then, and perhaps not as incredible as some PPs describe. They’re assuming students in the future regional magnet will not be a group of highly motivated students who love to learn. We don’t know the criteria of the regional program, so we don’t know what those students will be like. If they maintain a hard cutoff of 90% MAP (“A” students by objective measure), the type of students should be the same. Incredible teachers are good at reasoning and not emotionally reactive.[/quote]

It has been repeatedly cited in this forum that the median MAP-M score for the admitted students is somewhere around 285, which is &gt;99% for Grade 12 according to NWEA breakdown. More than 50% of the current SMACS students came from Churchill and Wootton, and the 3rd is WJ. Many admitted students had won state or national STEM prizes before joining SMACS. What makes believe that the new regional program wouldn't be significantly watered down?   [/quote]

You really moved the goalpost there. The students were described as "highly motivated students who love to learn." No reason to believe that won't still be the case.[/quote]

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