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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][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]

They did a good job of sinking Blair's magnet. Looking at its enrollment in 2023-24, the program had 440 students from across the country. Only 105 of those students come from the 5 high schools in Blair's new region one. I think that is a good forecast for future years. Unfortunately, the program needs at least 300 students to sustain the curriculum offerings.

Plus, it looks like MCPS is going to peel off Wootton at Crown to be in region 5, instead of region 4, where Churchill will be located. Wootton and Churchill area students are highly represented in Blair's current magnet cohort, so they could form a rigorous STEM program, but not if Wootton and Churchill are not in the same region.

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They can easily fill it but do the kids want to go there?   Why do W kids need to go to a school their parents slam and wouldn’t live near except for the magnet.  [/quote]

[b]Because there is no longer access to Churchill and Wootton area students, Blair will not have access to the same number of highly able students.[/b] They can enroll other students, but these students will not have the same readiness for the rigorous courses, so the quality of the education will be lower. It becomes just another STEM program. [/quote]
Huh??
Do you know that before they made the changes to the magnets, i.e. no CogAt, just MAP scores, most of the admittance were from the DCC and Wootton.  Churchill and WJ benefitted the most from the changes. There used to be threads here complaining about how the magnet committee discriminate against the W schools because there were so few admittance from the W schools,  except for Wootton. [/quote]

Does Churchill count as a W school, as in [b]W[/b]inston Churchill? Yes, I believe that it does. Lots of Churchill-area students attend the Blair magnet. I would love for there to be a large cohort of students as highly able as the students admitted to the current magnet program that live in what will be region one. I don't want this program to collapse.  The program needs 75 students per grade to survive. That is a total of 300 students, down from the 440 currently enrolled.[/quote]
Your reading comprehension needs improvement [/quote]

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