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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you do realize that your kid will earn a IB diploma, same as kids who attend the non selective IB schools, right?

Nothing is actually being taken away from your child by offering home school kids an opportunity to participate in a program housed at their school. [/quote]

I already responded to your first question.

[b]What is being taken away is "magnet" rigor and "magnet" resources[/b] that the kids were promised in exchange for their sacrifices to join a school away from the comfort of their home school.[/quote]

How?[/quote]

When significant portion of the class is filled with kids who did not specifically qualify for the magnet rigor, the teacher cannot deliver instruction at that rigor without leaving those kids behind.

When limited resources is used for more than what they were planned for individual magnet students get less than they need.[/quote]
DP.. I *might* agree with #1 but not #2. [b] If they expanded the program to include more qualified students[/b] would you be just as upset in terms of less resource for your DC?  I doubt it.  [/quote]

No I would not. At that point the expansion will happen with MCPS and BOE acknowledgement and additional resource would have to be negotiated. This is another gripe that the 100 county wide seats have not been expanded over a decade even though countywide (HG students) population has increased several fold.[/quote]
So, if RM by itself without BOE input decided to expand the program, made the RM cluster students go through the same process as other magnet students, then you'd still be upset because your magnet student gets a smaller piece of the pie?[/quote]

By principle, I am against a school makes unilateral changes to a county owned program. However, if the school makes changes that opens up more seats for county wide qualified students I would work with them to advocate at county level for more resource. [/quote]
But there would be zero guarantee that you would get additional funding.  Would this make you think twice about having your DC attend the magnet program?  Does the fact that HYP allow in students with lower test scores hurt its prestige?  Do think those elite students don't get as rigorous an education because of the students who scored much lower?  Would you rather send your child to UC Berkley where it's just purely about test scores and grades rather than Harvard where they use "holistic" admittance approach? Both are top notch schools, but I think Harvard outranks UCB for the most part.[/quote]

what "prestige"? I don't see no prestige in the name of "magnet program". There are many magnet programs in MCPS, but only a few are highly sought after.  [/quote]
HYP doesn't have "prestige" in its name either but almost everyone would agree that getting in is quite an accomplishment.  I don't understand the point of your post.[/quote]

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