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[quote=Anonymous]There are some dramatic people on this forum. My perspective from the POV of a former JW kid who did not get into the program but would like to complete the IB diploma is that as PPs said, this is nothing new.  For years JW kids have been told the school is working to make the IB program more accessible to them.  There has long been a perception that a disproportionate amount of the school's resources go to the magnet program and in-cluster kids are left behind.  The school has been trying to change that perception for years by increasing accessibility to those resources.

I don't pretend to know why Ms. Hoover was dismissed, but it was clear that she was not on the same page as the administration.  She seemed to serve the IB students well, but she wanted to keep IB for a very elite group of students.  Of course you are going to have high diploma completion rates when only a very small percentage of the top students in the county get in.  She seemed to be resistant to greater accessibility, the direction MCPS (I don't think this was just the principal) wanted to go with the program.

I'm glad DD (a well-rounded straight-A student who has been in all honors classes) will have access to IB classes even though she didn't get into the program, and I'm not particularly upset that a few kids from Bethesda might not choose RM as a result.[/quote]

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