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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm interested in RMIB for a future kid.  Can someone please explain what the principal has done so far to change the program, other than let Ms. Hoover go?  I can understand that may be huge, but assume for the sake of argument a replacement is also excellent.  What has changed?  It seems like parents are saying more home school kids are being let into the magnet classes.  Do you mean for the 9th and 10th grade classes, which I am guessing were previously just magnet kids?  And so you're upset because the level of the class then gets diluted by people who, as a group, don't have the same scores and credentials as the magnet kids?   Weren't home school kids already let into the 11th and 12th IB courses anyway?    I'm assuming few home school kids did that in the past, both because very few kids choose IB to start with and then the level of the class is that much higher because of the caliber of the magnet kids, scaring people away. [b] Is the principal doing something to make it more likely that the home school kids actually enroll in those IB classes?[/b][/quote]

To me the issue is not home vs test-in kids. It's the "water down" affects of mainstreaming the program. The RMIB is special for one reason - the type of kids in the program, highly driven smart kids who work incredibly hard. There is no way mixing kids will NOT bring negative changes to the program.  [/quote]

But as I understand it, this isn't a new thing. Those lesser, contaminating RM kids have already been participating in the program. So if mixing kids brings negative changes to the program --[b] it's already happened. [/b]The program you're defending as special actually already isn't.[/quote]

Yes and no actually. IB always had certain number of set aside seats for home school kids but the mainstreaming effort by the new guy is a new thing. [/quote]

Let it be. In schools that offer IB around the county, the big lament is that no one wants to do the full diploma.  I would like to see how many students from the home schools actually want to do this program or are able to earn the IB diploma. Since 2.0, quality of students have gone down, not up, I would like to see this school produce enough IB caliber students to fill these seats and actually earn a diploma.  The new guy is doing what his bosses have told him to do.

The big issue remains getting Hoover back. She knows the IB program and the MCPS system.[/quote]

According to the info they give to the parents, the RM kids that join the program in 11th grade have just as a high of a diploma rate as the magnet kids in 9th.  You know IB does not actually start until 11th grade right?[/quote]

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