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[quote=Anonymous][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]
Even if RMIB is better than the regionals (that's to be expected), doesn't prove that the regionals have failed.[/quote]

I guess the theory is that the regionals would do better if the top students weren’t all flocking to RMIB.[/quote]

The kids I know that went to the regionals weren’t significantly worse than the RM kids.  [b]But the regional programs just were not good.[/b]  It turns out you can’t just decide to run an IB program and have it magically appear fully formed without putting a lot of expertise and resources into developing it.[/quote]

Hard disagree here. Springbrook IB has grown to the 3rd largest Diploma Programme in the county, behind RMHS and B-CC. There has been tremendous interest in the regional magnet from inside and out of the consortium. The previous poster should come out to the interest night at Springbrook. It is always a packed room of 8th graders from the NEC, Rockville, Magruder, and Sherwood clusters. One thing right at that school is the incredible work of the two coordinators in developing what was once a tiny program of 40 DP students overall into 150+ students.[/quote]

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