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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dd was accepted in RMIB and decided not to attend.  From this thread, maybe it was a good choice.  But the reason I was encouraging her to join was entirely because of the cohort concept.  I liked the idea of a small community of 100 kids in the grade, all of whom she would know well by middle of freshman year.  I like the idea that most or all of the kids she was in classes with would be working hard and pushing themselves the way she does.  I liked the idea that the strong capabilities of her peers would push her to do even better.  She is happy at her home school with middle school friends, but the experience is very different from what I thought the cohort would be.

If the idea of a strong, coherent cohort of very strong students is being lost in this transition, then that's a shame.  I'm not sure there's much reason to encourage kids to attend if that's not an important part of the experience-- if the appeal is in the challenge of the courses, alone, most kids can get that with AP and community college classes in their home school, without the commute.[/quote]

We always second guess our decision and sometime information comes to justify our decisions. I am sure if you knew a few things discussed in this thread, the conversations you had when your DD decided would have been different. I am also sure the students who appealed for rejections, these information would have helped.

Magnet program is not be-all and end-all. However, if the purpose of the magnet programs are lost in social engineering effort then the "magnet" name is not sufficient for many students to leave their home school. If MCPS does not not reverse its course in couple of years, it may risk losing its academically superior status in the process.[/quote]

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