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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended an IB high school that was not a magnet, and anyone could enroll in the IB courses assuming they met the criteria for the equivalent AP class.

Of the entire class of 450, exactly 8 of us did the full diploma.

[b]All of that is to say that I think these claims of "unqualified" students being allowed in are overblown at best, and racist/classist nonsense at worst. [/b]

The kids you don't want in the IB classes? They largely aren't going to sign up for them. [/quote]

Not all IB schools and their  student bodies are same.  RM is not just a IB school, it is a magnet IB school. How hard is this for you to understand, the magnet student are invited all across the county to join a program designed for academically highly gifted (not just who can do well in IBDP or AP)? Students who could have gone to one of the other 7/8 IB schools but would not find their intellectual peers to are recruited to this program. Letting RM-kids join the same magnet IB program without going through the same selection process is a back-door. Highly Gifted children (like other special need children) have special academic need and their education opportunity should not be compromised

It is like forming very successful Varsity team by excruciating selection and then let the coach's son into the team since he was there watching all the games.

What is racist and classist in this? Academic preparedness and intellectual curiosity is not limited to a class or race. RM cluster is neither full of URM or poor, in case you do not know. [/quote]

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