IB at Kennedy HS

[Anonymous]

Who is the Principal 2025-26?
Pros and cons of IB program there?
Are IB science courses (IB Chem, Bio, Physics etc..) any good? What IB class(es) is/are well taught at Kennedy?

[Anonymous]

Do you have a rising 8th grader considering applying? I would be wary given that programming is changing across MCPS.

[Anonymous]

The new principal is Karla Lopez-Arias

[Anonymous]

Is IB expected to be moved to another school?

[Anonymous]

Brand-new principal after the last brand-new principal got pushed out.

IB program needs lots of help. Don’t send your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brand-new principal after the last brand-new principal got pushed out.

IB program needs lots of help. Don’t send your kid.

Why was last new principal pushed out?
What were the main problems at the school last year?
Why is there an IB program at that school?

[Anonymous]

Kennedy has had an IB programs for a long time now, but it was just the diploma program(11/12th grade). MCPS expanding the IB program to be a regional offering in multiple places following the pandemic, so now it’s supposed to be a 9-12th program for accepted students. This year is the first graduating class of that model.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is IB expected to be moved to another school?

There is no concrete info as yet on what programs are going to be where or what will or won’t be moving.

Don’t let people induce fear for you unnecessarily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy has had an IB programs for a long time now, but it was just the diploma program(11/12th grade). MCPS expanding the IB program to be a regional offering in multiple places following the pandemic, so now it’s supposed to be a 9-12th program for accepted students. This year is the first graduating class of that model.

Last year’s class was the first graduating class of the regional version of the IB program actually. This year’s is the second.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brand-new principal after the last brand-new principal got pushed out.

IB program needs lots of help. Don’t send your kid.

Why was last new principal pushed out?
What were the main problems at the school last year?
Why is there an IB program at that school?

The last principal was pushed out due to a number of issues, including safety and security at the school, staff dissatisfaction and poor academic outcomes.

The Regional IB program was put in place at Kennedy to attract whiter, wealthier kids who aren’t directly zoned for Kennedy in the hopes that those kids and their families would uplift the scores and standards for the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy has had an IB programs for a long time now, but it was just the diploma program(11/12th grade). MCPS expanding the IB program to be a regional offering in multiple places following the pandemic, so now it’s supposed to be a 9-12th program for accepted students. This year is the first graduating class of that model.

Kennedy has pre-IB classes now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy has had an IB programs for a long time now, but it was just the diploma program(11/12th grade). MCPS expanding the IB program to be a regional offering in multiple places following the pandemic, so now it’s supposed to be a 9-12th program for accepted students. This year is the first graduating class of that model.

Kennedy has pre-IB classes now?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy has had an IB programs for a long time now, but it was just the diploma program(11/12th grade). MCPS expanding the IB program to be a regional offering in multiple places following the pandemic, so now it’s supposed to be a 9-12th program for accepted students. This year is the first graduating class of that model.

Which 9/10th grade classes are magnet IB classes there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brand-new principal after the last brand-new principal got pushed out.

IB program needs lots of help. Don’t send your kid.

Why was last new principal pushed out?
What were the main problems at the school last year?
Why is there an IB program at that school?

The last principal was pushed out due to a number of issues, including safety and security at the school, staff dissatisfaction and poor academic outcomes.

The Regional IB program was put in place at Kennedy to attract whiter, wealthier kids who aren’t directly zoned for Kennedy in the hopes that those kids and their families would uplift the scores and standards for the school.

and this is why in the new regions, they will have Kennedy as region 4 IB, not RMIB, which is the longest running IB magnet in the county with the most seasoned teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brand-new principal after the last brand-new principal got pushed out.

IB program needs lots of help. Don’t send your kid.

Why was last new principal pushed out?
What were the main problems at the school last year?
Why is there an IB program at that school?

The last principal was pushed out due to a number of issues, including safety and security at the school, staff dissatisfaction and poor academic outcomes.

The Regional IB program was put in place at Kennedy to attract whiter, wealthier kids who aren’t directly zoned for Kennedy in the hopes that those kids and their families would uplift the scores and standards for the school.

The Principal was to deliver a miracle? In 1.5 years? And now the new principal will be expected to ? Is that really the expectation of MCPS? If so that right there is telling a lot about the school system.