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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They tried putting high profile programs in low income schools.  How are those IB programs going at Watkins Mill and Kennedy?[/quote]

I thought the Watkins Mill IB program was considered pretty successful?  I know the one at Kennedy is not good and is generally avoided but that doesn't make all of them bad [/quote]

Not sure I'd consider Watkins Mill successful....  https://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DHXL5Z54F2FC/$file/MCPS%20IB%20Program%20Statistics.pdf

And yes, it's still a new program. But MCPS also hasn't done any analysis to determine what is working and what isn't. [/quote]

Doesn't look that bad to me given nearly all the students receive farms[/quote]

That's fair, but if you're a region 5 parent with a high achieving child, are you sending them to an IB program where only 17% of students are passing the IB math exam?  [/quote]

And MCPS has no plans in place to improve those math outcomes. Somehow, dispersing RMIB students to attend their home schools or a new regional school program is supposed to somehow improve outcomes at lower performing regional IB programs.[/quote]

Region 5 currently sends about 10 kids a year to RMIB. Even if they all go to Watkins Mill instead, it's not changing outcomes. [/quote]

I do not think the goal of this regional model is for rich kids to go to poor schools and lift them up or whatever. They certainly haven't designed it to do that.[/quote]

The goal is to do changes for the sake of changes to say they did something.  The theory is that they can pull the smarter kids out of the poorer schools and brag about that while ignoing that plan also creates a greater divide and sets up more schools to decline.[/quote]
It seems to me the Black and Brown coalition/administration wants to cut off the usual pipelines to Blair and whatever other programs they have been jealous of. [/quote]

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