IB at Kennedy HS

[Anonymous]

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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.

So students who didn't win lottery for RM get into Kennedy for 9th and 10th?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Not necessarily. Student needs to first live in the Kennedy region and second needs to apply to the Kennedy IB program.

Kennedy has pre-IB classes now?

Yes.

So students who didn't win lottery for RM get into Kennedy for 9th and 10th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So students who didn't win lottery for RM get into Kennedy for 9th and 10th?

Not sure if students who apply and don't get into RMIB are automatically referred to Kennedy's Regional IB Program if they aren't selected, but yes, it is an option for kids if they are rejected from RMIB and live within the DCC and still want the cohort-style IB program throughout all 4 years of high school.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Why are you singling out just academic outcomes in isolation? The principal was expected to move the needle in all of the areas that were named and didn't. How is that wrong?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So students who didn't win lottery for RM get into Kennedy for 9th and 10th?

Not sure if students who apply and don't get into RMIB are automatically referred to Kennedy's Regional IB Program if they aren't selected, but yes, it is an option for kids if they are rejected from RMIB and live within the DCC and still want the cohort-style IB program throughout all 4 years of high school.

Kennedy's IB region includes not only the DCC but also BCC, Churchill, Whitman, and Walter Johnson.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So students who didn't win lottery for RM get into Kennedy for 9th and 10th?

Not sure if students who apply and don't get into RMIB are automatically referred to Kennedy's Regional IB Program if they aren't selected, but yes, it is an option for kids if they are rejected from RMIB and live within the DCC and still want the cohort-style IB program throughout all 4 years of high school.

Kennedy's IB region includes not only the DCC but also BCC, Churchill, Whitman, and Walter Johnson.

One wonders how many from Churchill, Whitman or WJ have attended the Kennedy regional IB program. I would suspect very few, and likely none from BCC, as their own local IB offering was considered much better.

My understanding is that there wasn't automatic referral from a declined RMIB app to a regional, as all magnet apps are supposed to be handled separately. I could be wrong, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Is it off the table that they would have 2 IB schools in a region? Because if that is the case, then I think they will keep RMIB and retire Kennedy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Is it off the table that they would have 2 IB schools in a region? Because if that is the case, then I think they will keep RMIB and retire Kennedy

That would make too much sense for MCPS.

They love to put all programming in the lower performing schools. RM was a lower performing school and a real success story. It helped that it was on the edge of the wealthier areas (I live in the RM cluster). Kennedy is not situated as such.

[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.

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

bump. Anyone know?

https://coursebulletin.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/SchoolCourseCatalogs/School/04815/EN

I clicked into MCPSPIB English 10A, but it shows as "Special Program or Cluster Designations: Richard Montgomery HS International Baccalaureate - English".

Did they just use RMIB's link for this, but it's the same class at Kennedy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

bump. Anyone know?

https://coursebulletin.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/SchoolCourseCatalogs/School/04815/EN

I clicked into MCPSPIB English 10A, but it shows as "Special Program or Cluster Designations: Richard Montgomery HS International Baccalaureate - English".

Did they just use RMIB's link for this, but it's the same class at Kennedy?

Yes, any class with the "MCPSIB" designation is part of the 9/10th grade Regional IB Program.

Here is another one:

MCPSPIB Biology A SCI2084A/SCI2084B

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So students who didn't win lottery for RM get into Kennedy for 9th and 10th?

Not sure if students who apply and don't get into RMIB are automatically referred to Kennedy's Regional IB Program if they aren't selected, but yes, it is an option for kids if they are rejected from RMIB and live within the DCC and still want the cohort-style IB program throughout all 4 years of high school.

Move the needle in a school that may be needing more than a needle to be moved? The school needs more resources not just changing principals. Adamson was an AP at B-CC HS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So students who didn't win lottery for RM get into Kennedy for 9th and 10th?

Not sure if students who apply and don't get into RMIB are automatically referred to Kennedy's Regional IB Program if they aren't selected, but yes, it is an option for kids if they are rejected from RMIB and live within the DCC and still want the cohort-style IB program throughout all 4 years of high school.

Kennedy's IB region includes not only the DCC but also BCC, Churchill, Whitman, and Walter Johnson.

One wonders how many from Churchill, Whitman or WJ have attended the Kennedy regional IB program. I would suspect very few, and likely none from BCC, as their own local IB offering was considered much better.

My understanding is that there wasn't automatic referral from a declined RMIB app to a regional, as all magnet apps are supposed to be handled separately. I could be wrong, though.

Don't have the data, but couldn't the students from Churchill and other high schools you mentioned have attended KHS to begin IB in 9th rather than wait until 11th grade, if an IB program is worth commuting all the way from Churchill or Whitman?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Is it off the table that they would have 2 IB schools in a region? Because if that is the case, then I think they will keep RMIB and retire Kennedy

That would make too much sense for MCPS.

They love to put all programming in the lower performing schools. RM was a lower performing school and a real success story. It helped that it was on the edge of the wealthier areas (I live in the RM cluster). Kennedy is not situated as such.

+1.
Not yet, but if developers get closer to developing around there, the area could look different.

[Anonymous]

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

Every HS in McPS will offer AP or IB courses according to the presentation from the Program Analysis a design team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Is it off the table that they would have 2 IB schools in a region? Because if that is the case, then I think they will keep RMIB and retire Kennedy

Kennedy will likely get the Smcs magnet.