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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it absolutely strange how non-magnet parents have an opinion about the program that does not take away from their children at all or impact them in any way.   Would love some RMIB magnet parents to give their opinion about what is happening in the school.

Sometimes it is one person who can make or break a program. Hoover is/was the reason that the diploma rate is so high.   The program is inclusive and the IB part is open to ANY student who wants to do it in the school.  You would assume that everyone would jump at the opportunity to get in the magnet program or do the IB diploma.  I guess the magnet IB workload and an extremely high achieving peer group dissuades many others from doing the program.

Unfortunately, there is no way the school can water down the program and still fulfill the IB requirement.  MCPS mantra has been to lower capability, merit and achievement to create the illusion that students are not performing at different levels.  [/quote]

IB is open to kids within RM boundaries. Springbrook, Watkins Mill, Seneca Valley, BCC, Kennedy & Einstein have open enrollment, too - for those  within the NEC & DCC consortia. This isn't the case for RM. it's a test in that skims off the top, which - as I've said before - is NOT inclusive.

So we either add IB to ALL high schools or end the magnet testing. In the non- test in school, the standards are exactly the same. It is an international program with set regulations.  These  teachers don't "water down" the program either.

I'm in the system, and while I'm not a magnet parent, I know of what I speak. [/quote]

It actually is the case for 11th grade neighborhood non-magnet kids at RM.  The difference is just the first two years.  At those other schools, kids that will do IB in 11th do not take special classes until then.  They only take certain requirements to do IB in 11th but those are open to other students as well.  For example RM IB kids take APGOV in 9th grade..but there are no non-magnet kids in the class.[/quote]

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