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For the PP who is trying to paint me as elitist that I am complaining that RM has "put in "not as qualified" RM kids in with your super duper smart kids", I do not consider my kids as super duper smart. I have already mentioned that there are many qualified kids in RM who would succeed in the magnet program, and they should be in the cohort in 9th grade. In fact JWMS students have a quota of 25/30 seats in 9th grade through the application process. I also know there are many similar kids who are rejected ever year with statement that "RM magnet program does not have enough seats for all qualified" students. I have helped around 10 parents over the years to write their appeal letters and only 4 have succeeded. All 10 were as smart (if not smarter) than my kids. I have a problem when RM kids who do not have to prove their "qualification" anymore can get into the magnet program in 11th grade, when many non-RM kids like these are refused a seat even though the selection committee finds them qualified to succeed in the program.[/quote]

You're complaining that it's not fair that kids who are at RM get to take RMIB classes even though they're not in RMIB, when kids who aren't at RM don't. Is that it?

Would it be more fair to tell kids who are at RM that they don't get to take RMIB classes? I don't think so.[/quote]

Nope, let me explain this again. IB =/= magnet. My kids joined an MAGNET IB program, which RM is turning into JUST IB program behind the curtain. There are many kids (who are as academically advanced or more) than my kids and many at RM who are rejected from the "magnet" program because there are not enough seat. There are many kids who are rejected from the "magnet" program because they did not qualify. For all these reasons, RM can do one of the two things:

[list]Withdraw itself from magnet school status since it cannot provide magnet program authentically to the invited student without conflicting with its IB philosophy.[/list]

[list]Create a magnet IB program for qualified kids (from RM and non-RM clusters) who start at 9th grade and a non-magnet IB program for all RM kids who start in 11th grade.[/list]

In the meantime though, MCPS and RM must make the two magnet paths clear to non-RM parents/students on their websites, in the magnet open house presentations and in all other communication. The small print CYA version is a "bait and switch"(from magnet to regular IBDP) that must stop.[/quote]

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