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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The RMIB is a test-in program.  A cohort of smart, competitive, and hard working students spend four years together learning, exploring, charlenge themsilves, and developing friendship.  It is like an All-star team.  I dont understand why some of the posters dont appreciate this magnet program.  It is not for average students.
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It is not an all-star team.  It is an all-star team of tiger parents that set their kids up this way and will make sure they are bussed anywhere in the county or will drive them as needed.  Some very talented and gifted kids can not afford to do this or have parents that can put in the countless hours of paperwork, meetings, finding out deadlines, etc... to be awarded one of the lucky spots.  And many of these kids can't handle it.  They work 4+ hours of homework a night to handle it.  If you are working more than 2 hours on HW in high school, you can't handle it.  It is beyond you but you work with tutors, stay up for hours, and stay sleep-deprived to make tiger mom happy.

No different than all the other lottery and sign-up spots in these specialized programs.  I would say 80% of the language immersion programs have parents that just wanted out of their terrible home elementary school and put in a school/class with involved kids and parents.  They are all parent-led.

In Fairfax, teachers decide who makes the in-school G&T programs.  No bussing, no parent involvement.  The actual best get in.  [/quote]

It is interesting that people here keep bring up that only kids of tiger moms got into the magnet programs.  I had one child who had been a good student in ES and MS, but started to hate school in 6 grade.  DC  went to a magnet program in HS and finally found his peers and enjoyed learning.  You could understand how the magnet program helped kids like mine if you had one in your family.

Students in magnet programs put up with the homework and long commute because it is their choice.  A few elected to go back to home school during schedule conflict for EC.

If you had HS kids, please try to push something that only you want them to do.  No matter if you were tiger mom or wolf dad, in today's enviroment, you could not make their do anything they are not interested. [/quote]

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