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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more I think about it, the more I believe that OP's real motivation is that kids who joined the IB program in 11th grade are putting Richard Montgomery IB diploma program on their college applications, just like OP's kid who joined in 9th grade, and OP is worried that this will ruin OP's kid's chances of getting into Fancypants U.[/quote]

Or they object to RM not being honest and upfront with the families of prospective families.  
There is a big difference between having magnet classes in 11th and 12th grade with the IB magnet students and a handful of highly qualified RM students who went through a rigorous process to enter the magnet program in 11th grade and having IB classes in 11th and 12th grade with a mixture of magnet students and RM students who did not go through a rigorous selection process to enter the program.  [b]It absolutely will affect the quality of the educational experience in these classes.

[/b]Regarding the college application question.  If these kids are being identified as RMIB diploma students then that is of course fine but if they are being represented as RMIB magnet students that again is dishonest.
RMIB has always admitted a group of students from JWMS - I can't remember how many but I think something like 20% of the incoming class are students from JWMS.  That is well known and most people don't mind this because it is a high performing MS and these kids do go through a rigorous process to be selected.  What the school is now doing in 11th grade is very, very different and does compromise the integrity of the magnet program.[/quote]

People keep saying that, but they haven't yet said how.

And at least one person with a kid in the program said that it doesn't.
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You keep asking without understanding the reason for opening a central magnet program without providing magnet education in every schools. The reason MCPS has decided to gather the magnet students in one (actual 4/5 groups across three application based magnet schools) school is that these students in their home school cannot be educated in their home school at the pace, depth and methods that is appropriate for their academic growth. If it was possible to provide them the same education with comprehensive students in their homeschool they do not need to be uprooted from their home schools. Think about it. If the quality of education experience was not being affected by comprehensive students why the magnet students are screened so rigorously and placed outside their homeschool comprehensive population?[/quote]

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