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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] My high achieving RM non-magnet student was exposed to PYP and MYP and thrilled to leave it behind after 10th grade. Not the workload or the competitive kids..just the structure of the classes and writing style. So happy to never hear the term reflection again!! He literally put the application form in the fire place and watched it burn. That is not to say it can not be a wonderful program for the right kid.[/quote] This is a hearty endorsement for the inclusivity of RMIB program. Yes, it is open to all RM students - magnet or non-magnet. Very few non-magnet students opt in to do the program because it is not the right program for them. Every RM student have access and opportunity to do this. Majority of the talk about magnet IB not being inclusive is coming from the parents of students who are not interested in doing the program in the first place. The same goes for AP courses. No one can force a kid to be on the AP track or take an AP course. Either the kid is interested and capable or they are not. Let me draw a parallel - all the people who are in US Navy, do not train to be a Navy Seal. It is the very few who have the ability and the determination that get chosen to become Navy Seals - mainly because it is tougher than being a sailor. AP , IB, Magnet - requires a lot of sacrifice of time and effort The magnet programs were never put in place to serve the needs of the highly gifted children in MCPS. [b]It was put in place as a poorly conceived social engineering experiment in low performing schools[/b]. Perhaps, MCPS should create seperate majority magnet schools like Poolesville HS. That way there will not be a school within a school. [/quote] This is factually incorrect. The test-in magnet programs in MCPS were established for gifted education, and they were placed in the schools they were placed because that's where there was room at the time. There's more information about the history of the test-in magnet programs in the study by Metis Associates.[/quote] PP is correct. The magnet schools were created to assist in voluntary desegregation. http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/choice/ChoiceStudyReport-Version2-20160307.pdf See pg. 19 " Magnet programs at the secondary level were initially developed to support voluntary desegregation efforts, although their selective admissions criteria distinguished them from them early elementary magnets. In the mid-1980's, the same demographic changes that prompted the creation of the elementary magnets spurred efforts to develop programs at the secondary level to maintain racial diversity in the southeastern areas of the district, consistent with Policy ACD, Quality Integrated Eduction, and avoid concerns about "White flight". In response, the Board approved the opening of a Math, Science, and Computer Science manget program at Montgomery Blair HS in 1982 and crated middle (then called intermediate) school magnet programs at Takoma Park MS in 1984 and Eastern MS in 1986." [/quote]
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