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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kennedy IB isn't new it has always been open to the DCC kids. What is new is that it is open to several W schools now. [/quote]

I am sure a lots of WJ, Whitman,and churchill kids who could not get into RMIB or Blair due to cohort effect will choose Kennedy’s new IB regional magnet.  I am not sure if kids from BCC would come unless MCPS terminate the IB there.  Actually, if MCPS waters down the acadamic programs in WJ, Whitam, Churchill, and BCC, more MC and UMC kids will choose a regional magnet in DCC.  This is a way to reach diversity without forced bussing. [/quote]

If people choose Kennedy for IB over their own W school, they are seriously misinformed.  What a joke.[/quote]

That's what some people said about RM when the IB magnet started there.[/quote]
Indeed.  The old timers still lament being zoned out of Wootton to RM, and some did pull their kids out and put them in private.  BUT, some of those same kids who are now adults live in this area and choose to send their kids to RM and like it.  And some people even choose to live in this cluster to give their kids the advantage of set aside seats for the RMIB magnet.

However, I think RM is a different story in that it is surrounded by enough wealthier areas to make the school not have such a high FARMs rate. Yes, it only does so because the wealthier area was rezoned to RM from Wootton, even though Wootton is closer. Still, RM is a success story in that regard.    I don't know if this would work in other areas, though. Do those other HSs have enough of a wealthier area somewhat close by such that it could have the areas zoned to those schools?  I believe those regional IBs have set aside seats for in cluster students as well.  Will that be enough of a draw 20 years later  like RMIB?[/quote]

There are quite a few newer and pricier homes near Kennedy in Poplar Run. [url]https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/13216-Redspire-Dr-20906/home/147606182[/url]
It's already zoned to Kennedy, but if the reputation of the school improves as a result of the regional IB program, that would suggest more of the nearby UMC residents would send their kids there.[/quote]
then I think it's certainly possible in several years, Kennedy could be a different school, much like RM was about years ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/05/25/school-shift-stirs-rockville-dispute/a460e6bd-9d22-4b6d-a490-c8aef025f231/

same story, 30 years later, just a different neighborhood.  [/quote]

Thanks for digging out that article. I noticed that, to implement the boundary change, students switched schools only when they went into 6th grade. A much kinder and gentler transition on the affected students.[/quote]

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