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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a child in the program. We were happy with it. I would say I did not see elitist attitudes among my daughter's friends, but I do know that cohorts coming from magnet middle schools come with this history. The year is still young, but some of the changes we see this year are troubling. The most immediate for us is the reorganization of language classes and combined classes with different levels. Now to be fair, last-year's language classes were also nothing to write home about relative to our middle school instruction. I know some kids also faced problems with reorgization of math. In general, kids are somewhat demoralized. There is a sense that the administration does not care about the program. It has not been very responsive to concerns, with poor communication (a lot of generalities, very few specific responses to concerns). In our case, I might consider bringing my child back to our excellent home school if things go south, as the watered down program and school tensions may not be worth a very long commute and lost hours each day any longer. [/quote]

I went to the PAC meeting on Wednesday evening and was impressed by the principle.  I don't have any child in RMIB currently, but may have one in two years.  I decided to check out the program.  It seems the principle and the students/parents are not on the same page.  The principle seems very enthusiastic about the program and Promises to keep the program excellent.  However, the parents/students didn't buy it.   The principle wants the program to be inclusive and claimed the 25-35 students from the local school are equally talented as the 100 students selected from 25 mcps high school.  
The changes brought by RM principle have support frommcps AEI, suggesting mcps is departing its commitment to meet every student's educate need.[/quote]

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