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[quote=Anonymous][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]
RMIB has "pre-IB" classes for 9th and 10th graders.  At least, for now.

Example: RMS English 9 is only available to IB magnet students.  I don't know if that will change any time soon.[/quote]

Right, but [b]MCPS Central Office has been trying to strong-arm B-CC and Einstein away from offering those cohorted classes[/b]. They were opt-in, and open to any kid, but "equity concerns" has led the county to try to kill the ability of schools to offer them. This is a problem because it puts even more pressure on the magnet programs and raises the stakes for those kids if they'd like to experience any sort of academic challenge with like-minded peers before their junior year. [/quote]

Say what? How do you know this and how can we push back against this?

What would the alternative model for MYP IB classes look like?[/quote]

I'm the PP and I know because an administrator told me when I asked what classes are available to incoming 9th graders. This administrator seemed genuinely frustrated, and I probably caught them in a bad moment (I have an older child at the school). [/quote]

MYP isn't classes, per se. In a wall-to-wall MYP school, all of the classes should fit into MYP, but I don't know how that would work at Einstein if it isn't a MYP school.

https://www.ibo.org/programmes/middle-years-programme/what-is-the-myp/how-the-myp-works/

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MCPS designates the MYP IB classes in the official course title.

So my DS has classes on the transcript that officially say:

MCPS IB in front of them for the "official" MYP IB classes. So he's "MCPS IB Chemistry A/B" and "MCPS IB Algebra 2" as a 10th grader.[/quote]

At Einstein? My kid is at Seneca, which is a wall-to-wall MYP school, and the classes are not designated as MYP IB. it's just Honors Chemistry A/B, Honors Precalculus, etc.[/quote]

The info I gave is what I'm seeing at Kennedy. If other MCPS IB schools do it differently than that might explain the difference, I guess. But the course title does say "MCPS IB" which makes it seem like it would be a districtwide designation.[/quote]

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