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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what they are proposing is to make more magnets, but also restrict access to those zones.

So, if you look at what they started to do with IB, [b]they created regional IB programs but kept RMIB as the flagship[/b].

This has been unevenly successful, because the "best" kids still went to RMIB and there were not enough kids at the regional programs to create a strong cohort.

So it will be interesting to see if they learn from that, or double down. [/quote]

And keeping RMIB as County wide instead of regional is part of the problem and makes little sense.  The idea of regional IB programs makes sense because the goal is to serve all students regardless of area of the county.  I like the idea of regions with a standard offering of programs. Nod a program is going to be county wide it needs to be because the facilities have been built to sustain such a program that might be cost prohibitive to build out in 6 or more regions. [/quote]
If you had a lot of high performing kids equally spread out across the district, I might agree with you, but that's not how it really is.  Certain regional programs will be weaker than others, and they won't be able to offer the same IB courses across all the different regional programs simply because of demand.  [/quote]

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