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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 [b]are recruited to this program[/b]. 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]

Recruited? How? [/quote]

Magnet coordinator visits to local are middle schools and briefs them about the program, speaks about all academic options, college success, and school support during the open house to attract them to apply, reaches out to local middle schools to ensure all questions are answered, fields questions about the program from curious students/parents, screens applications to identify the Highly Gifted students, sends selected students invitations, and conducts information sessions to highlight the best students to encourage them to chose RM over Blair/Poolesville programs. That is how.[/quote]

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