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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The integrity of the magnet cohort" must be a fragile thing, if it can be destroyed by having non-magnet students in their classes.[/quote]

Do you have a magnet student? Do you understand what a magnet cohort means? Are you suggesting we should abolish magnet programs in MCPS? Snide remarks prohibits us from having an educated discussions. [/quote]

Yes, I have a kid in a magnet program. Yes, I understand what a magnet cohort means. The kids in my kid's magnet program take academic classes with kids in the comprehensive program. Nothing bad has happened yet.

You are suggesting that Richard Montgomery have separate IB classes for kids in the comprehensive program and in the magnet program. That's absurd.[/quote]

NP, here.  I also have a DC in a magnet program (not RM) but she has two friends at RM in 11th grade.  One has expressed frustration at the fairness of letting non-magnet students join the program junior year.  And I can understand that from the applicant's perspective.  But she also said the regular students who join are highly motivated and capable and in no way change the character of the classes.  I don't think the PP's comment is snide, it gets at the crux of the issue.  It isn't fair that there's a back door to the program, but it is just.  Surely the students who entered in 9th grade receive something in those two years that reward their effort and it would be wrong if local students who've also worked hard are locked out of the advanced classes at their own school.  As a parent I'd like to believe I have a broader perspective than a HS student.  I'll praise the student who gets into the magnet but I don't want anyone's fate sealed in 8th grade.  And this isn't the last time our kids will see this, plenty of students don't step up until college or grad school and that doesn't say anything about their worth.

Anyway, what do you hope to accomplish with this anonymous screed a couple days before the open house?  Hopefully DCUM posts don't really sway anyone, but if they do, the likely outcome is you just scare off some desirable out-of-boundary applicants leaving more room for local kids to go in the front door.

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But MCPS has been doing this for years in other magnet programs.  TPMS and Einstein magnets also allow a backdoor for local students into the magnet program. It's the advantage of living in that cluster.  Do they go through the exact same process as the out of cluster magnet students?   If they don't, it doesn't seem to have affected parents' and student's motivation to apply for these test in magnets that require a one hour bus ride.

School districts put magnets into the lower achieving schools for a reason. It is a "magnet" to get higher achieving students to live in that cluster.  It's worked well for RM to that affect.  [/quote]

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