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[quote=Anonymous]I think they got new PR people because that letter was much better written than ones in the past.  It was almost convincing.

But I absolutely don't believe they can make this happen.  And the details were pretty fuzzy (although I didn't read the links).  I just don't understand how these "theme" schools are gong to work.  I suspect they will be trendy crap filler (medical sciences!  performing arts!) that will pull teachers and resources away from teaching solid, important classes like pre-calculus, biology, English.

I also don't believe their thing about kids driving past other IB programs to get to RM.  There aren't that many IB programs in the County.  My kid went to RMIB, and there were kids from Whtiman and WJ there, but they don't drive by BCC or Kennedy to get there.  One of the reasons my kid chose RMIB is that WJ had watered down the Apex program so much by allowing basically everybody in it.  It's still  "better than nothing" but is no longer a cohort of kids that really want an intense academic experience.

If they cared about giving kids accelerated opportunities, they could do it without these stupid trendy "theme" schools.  They could let teachers start teaching more challenging curricula -- which I think a lot of them would do.  They could get rid of honors for all and actually have advanced English classes, particularly in middle school where they are really needed.  They could give English teachers an extra planning period so they could provide more substantive feedback on written work.  They could develop a better science curriculum and make real labs available to kids more often.  Instead they are going to waste a lot of money on reinventing wheels, in a way that will not be as effective as more obvious and basic approaches to serving the needs of advanced learners.  Honestly, thank God for the AP program -- I'm not a huge fan of AP or College Board's rote learning method -- but at least it is a solid curriculum that actually teaches something, and MCPS can't monkey too much with what the teachers are teaching there.
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