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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How were you able to pull out the magnet scores at RM to know they are not as good as QO?  I am an RM parent and have never seen a breakdown.  It is so interesting to hear other prespectives.  I like that there is just one MS (though it is crowded) so the kids get many years as a group.  Your last comment is interesting...though I feel very differently.  My kids have all kinds of friends..which is what I like about RM.  What do you actaully mean by forced diversity?[/quote]

The scores are the same for both schools and includes RM's IB kids which we all know are the smartest in the county.  So obviously they are pulling up the rear.  If you look at test score of both middle and elementary schools from each district, you will see a difference too.  At QO, 93% of all students have taken AP/Honors/IB classes while at the actual IB school, only 81% have.  The AA and Hispanic kids are giving more chances as more than 85% of them are taking and passing honors courses.  In RM it is about 60%.  So to me, I think QO works on the student class as a whole.  I think RM segregates the kids and doesn't push them to their full potential.

Listen, I am glad you like the school.  I just do not at all.  I have no desire to want my kids in a lily white school but I do like a good positive community and I just feel like RM lacks that.  I am not the only parent to feel that way.  [b]The kids are very much segregated by the extreme SES levels and the IB program.[/b]  It is not cohesive in anyway and that projects onto the kids and their parents.  But it is just opinion. [/quote]

I don't know about SES, but it makes sense that kids are segregated by IB and non IB since IB kids are all in the same classes together, so they will socialize with each other.

I'm guessing that is the same for kids that are in AP programs in either schools - QO or RM.  I went to a pretty rough HS, but I had mostly AP/Honor classes and had the same group of kids in pretty much all my classes, so we tended to hang out together.  That can transcend SES.

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