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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm starting to wish "I was promised all magnet kids" poster would just move her kids to private and be done with it. At a public school, your kid will occasionally rub shoulders, and even share classes, with kids who don't meet your high standards.

You're going to have to cope with that, or just shell out for an environment in which every single snowflake is hand selected. [/quote]

That's about right, except apparently that DC is nearly finished at RMIB. This whole thread is just PSA to incoming parents, so they can carry on the fine tradition of harassing the director now that OP must move on.  The open house is tomorrow night, I'm thinking no one has their pitch forks quite yet.[/quote]

Are you nasty in real life too? What is this tradition you are talking about. What is wrong in providing parents more information? Why cannot public official operate in transparency and respond to parents question? Why should any admission or selection operate in secrecy?[/quote]

I'm not being nasty, I'm just tired of a certain parent personality that frequently shows up at magnet info nights.  And my youngest is now in eighth so I'm more than familiar with this October tradition.  There's frequently one parent who isn't new to the school who takes the limited Q&A as opportunity to "ask" about some petty PTA business in front of prospective parents as if a public shaming will finally bring their gripe the traction it deserves.  (E.g. one year at the Eastern OH it was some elaborate gotcha about the sixth graders being unattended on the eighth grade floor and the response was just lets talk afterward.)  And that's about how I see this thread.  I can only assume you've already taken this issue up IRL with everyone who can actually effect change and you haven't liked their responses.  So now you offer up your gripes in this thread with no details until someone makes a wrong assumption yet no shortage of wrong assumptions about who you might be talking with and why they disagree with you.

Look application season is enough of a slog, I don't need to be a pawn in your lost cause.  If and when students are accepted there is plenty of time to ask more questions, shadow students and get details.  I think the timing of your information is suspect and just intended to hurt the school in some small way, I don't need the details, I recognize the pattern and the more you say the clearer it is.[/quote]

I am not here to gain any brownie point for sharing information. My intention has never been "gotcha" moment during open house. I found this information recently, and wanted share with parents who are interested to find everything before applying. No one is forcing you to ask anything, especially since you claim to know everything. For others, the information is there to ask nor ask, use or not use to make decision. I did not have all these information when my kids applied. I cannot say whether my decision would have been different, but I would have appreciated if MCPS/RM would have shared this with me freely.

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