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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the frustrating elements here is that MCPS has rolled back the ability of the non-magnet IB schools to offer "pre-IB" classes.

It's part of this incredibly upsetting push-and-pull on the part of the Central Office. They want more families to choose B-CC or Einstein and claim to be expanding opportunities to these programs, but at the same time they are gatekeeping course offerings to the point that a teen who is looking for a like-minded peer group and pre-IB classes must wait until 11th grade to access those things. [/quote]
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There is no such thing as "pre-IB" classes[/b] in that sense. IB starts in 11th grade. Before that, there's the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP). I think that all of the MCPS high schools that offer a IB diploma programme are wall-to-wall MYP schools, but I'm not totally certain about that.[/quote]
yes there is. See above post about RMIB.[/quote]

Those aren't "pre-IB" classes, they are special classes for students who were accepted into the RMIB magnet program.[/quote]
yes, and it's generally called "pre-IB" classes since it can only be taken by IB magnet students.[/quote]

People can call the classes anything they want, but the fact is that the classes are not part of the IB Diploma Programme.[/quote]

There are no specific pre-IB classes that are part of the IBDP or IBCP program.  There is however a Middle Years Program in 9th and 10th grade which might be what PP is talking about.  MYP preps students for Full IB in 11th and 12th grade. For example, since Seneca Valley is a wall-to-wall IB school,  students in 9th and 10th grade have the MYP framework embedded in their classes, and they submit a personal MYP project in 10th grade.  At the end of 10th grade, students decide if they want to go for the full IB diploma (IBCP or IBDP) or take some IB classes here or there or none at all starting in 11th grade.  Not sure how it works at the other schools but this is how it works at SVHS.[/quote]
I don't know about the other schools, but for RMIB, RMS English 9/10th is ONLY open to IB magnet students.[/quote]

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