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Look,[b] I don't think this is the secret[/b] you make it out to be, [b]I certainly knew about it[/b] three years ago when my DC could have applied (wasn't a factor in our decision), others have said the same.  [b]I know families who bought houses in the RM cluster partly for this reason.[/b] [b]A formal application process is for accessing unknown students.  Why should the school need to do this when the students have already been studying at RM for two years and meet prerequisites?[/b]  I can understand why a teen might find this unfair, but I think an adult should be able to make peace with it.  Having students take the courses they are capable of taking is in everyone's best interest and should be the benefit of housing a magnet program.  You admit this is your axe to grind on the way out the door, so essentially spite.  You're accusing every one of being un-adult, yet you're the arrested one.  This is your child's school, not yours, chill.[/quote]

It is a secret that only the RM has shared with RM-Cluster parents. Does not mean no one knows. People who are in the market to buy house and speak with RM-Cluster parents certainly would know. You sound like a RM-cluster parent. Are you? I certainly did not know about this until couple of days back and I can assure you there are many non-RM cluster parents like me who had no idea about this second path let alone the criteria for this second path changed only recently.

Since you are arguing about it, let me ask you - do you think the magnet program RM hosts is school owned? The formal process is not for assessing unknown student - it is to assess their academically giftedness and their academic need not being met by their home school. This is not about RM student meeting IB prerequisite. This is about RM-student being provided a back-door to a county wide magnet program - owned by MCPS not RM. If the RM-students are accessed for qualification and need, that would be different conversation. There are students who do that transition from JWMS to RM through the same application process - we are not talking about that.

What spite I may have for a school which my kids have benefited from. I have no axe to grind. I have a responsibility to question unaccountable practices of the school and county when I see one, especially anything that tries to weaken the magnet program by thousand cuts.

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