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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Are you saying the program doesn't educate the students to have strong writing skills necessary to complete the Internal Assessments and Extended Essay? Are you saying students need to come into the program with these skills?[/quote]
Not exactly. Students that join the diploma program have learned the same skills in the Honors English program in 9th and 10th grade as the magnet students, but they haven't had the requirement to write as much independently as they will need to in 11th and 12th grade in the IB program. The RMIB magnet students are selected in part based on their strong language and writing skills to begin with. Then they have two years of magnet classes that focus more strongly on writing than the regular Honors classes. They just have much more practice at writing independently. A magnet kid who was in a Humanities magnet in middle school and learned how to write a 12 page independently researched report in 7th grade is just better prepared for the independent Extended Essay than students that didn't have that experience.

tldr: They all have been taught the same skills, the magnet kids have more practice.[/quote]

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