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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do so many kids from Churchill, WJ, and Wootton go to RMIB? [/quote]

It's not just RMIB, they send a lot to Blair too.  Are those 3 bad schools or something?[/quote]

Those zones have most the tippy top students in the county. [/quote]

What does "tippy top students" even mean?  I can't imagine those schools have that many more gifted kids with high potential than other schools, most of which send less than 10 kids.

I'd believe kids in those areas have higher test scores or other accomplishments based on exposure though, between the elementary and middle schools and the exposure and support from better-off parents  But that shouldn't affect admissions that much, should it-- what are the admissions criteria?   The magnets are supposed to serve the smartest kids in the county, right?   Not just provide extra resources and supports to kids who get ahead because of receiving more resources and support than kids of equal intelligence in poorer areas/families?

If the countywide magnets are actually serving the smartest, most capable kids of all backgrounds countywide, regardless of background, then I support them.  But if they're essentially just helping 95th percentile kids from rich areas get more advantages than top 1-2% kids from poor areas because the richer kids score better on exposure-based tests like MAP or the like, then I have a huge problem with that [/quote]

High intelligence, high performance people tend to cluster together and raise their kids together. People who care about education find each other. The differences are stark.
If a smart kid hasn't learned anything much by 8th grade, that's a tragedy but throwing them into an advanced accelerated program isn't going to help. They need something to help them catch up. [/quote]

People like to tell themselves that, but I don't buy it.  Rich schools don't just so happen to have 5-10 times the number of profoundly gifted kids as poor schools.  But they do often have many more kids who are bright and get lots of supports to succeed and access accelerated material and score high on exposure-based tests like MAP.

And no one's saying that smart kids who are behind grade level/"haven't learned anything much" by 8th grade should be admitted into advanced programs.  Just that bright rich kids who test better than profoundly gifted, slightly-ahead-of-grade level poor kids shouldn't get all the spots and leave the highly gifted poor kids behind with the justification that the poor kids can just take AP classes and that'll be fine.[/quote]

So you're going to throw these unsung genius kids, identified  by some mysterious process, into the same classes with years worth of additional preparation and demonstrated ability?
because these using? And these geniuses will somehow learn all the material they skipped?

Despite the fact that this was already tried with the TPMS lottery, and was an abject failure? [/quote]

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