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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of confusion going on in this thread. RM has a county-wide IB magnet program, and Kennedy, Springbrook, and Watkins Mill are the regional IB magnets. In the 9th and 10th grade years the students who are selected for the program are cohorted together and take core classes together. They may or may not have a special name (pre-IB, MYP, etc.), but somehow the school is keeping those students cohorted together when scheduling. That is supposed to be one of the benefits of the magnet.

The other 3 schools offering IB programs (BCC, Einstein, SVHS) are supposed to be offering rigorous courses to all of their students so that they are prepared for the diploma programme in 11th grade if they choose it. It doesn't matter if the course is "only" honors, it needs to be taught with the rigor needed for students to be successful with IB classes. [b]If that is not happening, that is a choice within the school.[/b]

I know that at RM there is a focus in 10th grade to make sure that the honors level courses have similar rigor (especially with writing) to the magnet classes so that non-magnet students can still join the IBDP in 11th and be successful.[/quote]

No, it is being dictated by central office.[/quote]

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