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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Magnet programs take up host school resources. Allowing home school kids easier entry into magnet programs (ex, tpms, rmib) seems reasonable compensation.

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Host schools get extra resource from MCPS and the test score boost from the Highly gifted students. The awards and accolades they get to the school cannot be quantified. So, the host schools are not doing it for free.

What I am pointing to is the "bait and switch" MCPS and RM are practicing. Its not okay to lure Highly Gifted students into one school and switch the program for the kids once they are there.[/quote]

What is this "bait and switch"?  They lure you into RMIB magnet, and then they stick you in regular classes, or *gasp*, they put in "not as qualified" RM kids in with your super duper smart kids?[/quote]

Yes, I think that's the OP's/PP's bait-and-switch. You think your kid will be in an exclusive special program with only special kids, but it turns out that they let non-special kids in!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!1!!!!!1!!!!!!!![/quote]
How do they know that those RM kids are not super smart, too?   JWMS GS rating is an 8, test scores rated 9.  Do those kids somehow become dumber when they hit 11th grade?  There are several kids in the cluster who made it to HGC and MS magnets.   Are those kids not as smart as those from the W clusters? Are the kids who move into the cluster after MS not smart enough to get int RMIB?  Do people not realize that some parents of very smart kids actually *choose* to live in the RM cluster for various reasons, one could be that they want their smart kid to go to RMIB without the commute?

I guess I could make the assumption that all W cluster kids are only "smart" because their parents can buy the high test scores and grades via tutors and afterschool enrichment activities.  Without these things, they'd be just as dumb as the RM cluster kids.  [/quote]

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