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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I am not sure why people seem to be being willfully obtuse about your question.  I suspect that the magnets developed as they did so that the magnet kids would necessarily have a significant number of classes with the home school kids.  People think that is beneficial academically at least for the home school kids, and socially perhaps for everyone. It might have been a political compromise to get magnets at all. [b] In high school, kids who are good all around can go to the Richard Montgomery IB magnet.[/b]  [/quote]

RMIB is a great program, but does not address the needs of a highly-able math student.  So, it doesn't really cover kids who are truly "good all around."[/quote]

For typical Blair SMAC kids, when do they take AP Calc BC? Many at RMIB take it as 11th (some in 10th and 12th but mostly 11th) followed by HL Math or Multi-variable Calc in 12th. Is Blair that much ahead of IB curriculum in math? [/quote]

Yes, Blair SMAC is that much ahead of IB curriculum in math.  The Blair SMAC curriculum doesn't track the MCPS curriculum, AP or otherwise.  So there is no "AP Calc BC"; there is "Analysis."  My DC took Analysis as a sophomore, which is sort of but not really comparable to AP Calc BC in that it covers AP Calc BC in the first semester, then goes beyond AP Calc BC.  And it is not an AP class (although everyone takes the AP Calc BC exam at the end, and everyone scores a 5.)

https://mbhs.edu/departments/magnet/courses_math.php

This year, DC (a junior) is taking Linear Algebra, Analysis 1A/B, and Applied Statistics, as well as Organic Chemistry.

This is the curriculum at the magnet:

https://mbhs.edu/departments/magnet/courses.php[/quote]

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