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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is bonkers. The regional program seems responsive to the concerns parents raise here all the time that high performing kids are shut out of the very few high performing programs. Now, a larger group of high performing kids will be able to learn with their high performing peers, with the speciality focus area piece available to try to equal out the number of high performing kids at each school. Seems like a good approach to me. As for the rarefied Blair offerings, kids can get those in college. [/quote]

Exactly. HS is about exposure not specialization.[/quote]

So why kill the existing program that gives kids the most exposure?  
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What exactly is the problem with keeping our outstanding cross-county programs AND reorganizing the school district into regions? [/quote]

I would have thought this was a good solution too, but [b]apparently it has already been tried and failed with IB programs.[/b][/quote]
How?[/quote]

I don't know the details but apparently people think RMIB is way better than the regional IBs?[/quote]
one only needs to look at the IBDP rate and the IB classes offered at the regional  IBs compared to RMIB.[/quote]
I believe the regional programs’ failure is because of mcps’s insistence to put them in schools with students have a reputation for unruliness. Better to stick with the home school than to be surrounded by disruptive students.[/quote]
MCPS is not going to put the IB regionals in high performing schools.  They put the magnet IB program in RM 2 decades ago because RM was a failing school at the time, and to appease the Wootton parents whose neighborhoods were rezoned to RM.   That was clearly a success, but it helps that the RM cluster neighbors Wootton and Churchill.  RM cluster now has a lot of UMC families and high performing students.   At the time, RM was in danger of closing due to low enrollment.

MCPS will try to do the same with the regional IBs.  They aren't going to put the regional IBs in high performing schools.   Look at where they put the regional IBs, and look at where most of the students are from.[/quote]

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