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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS turned a few high schools into "regional IB" programs four years ago. I remember that magnet admissions season and there was a LOT of angst over kids who applied to RM being instead seats at these regionals instead. And I remember an awful lot of unpleasant assertions that these schools / students would not perform at the same level as RM. It was ugly. Sometime really ugly.

So I am wondering how it has gone for the first cohort? I've heard about several admissions to T20 universities at our regional IB. More than there had been before. How about at your regional? Do you think it all worked out or do you think it was all for show and that MCPS failed?[/quote]

Just stop.

MCPS did not "fail"

Learn the history of why there are Magnet schools to begin with then come back with your propaganda.

These schools are good. They serve a specific segment of the student population.  Just like any other HS experience it will be different for different kids.

You have zero idea what you are a talking about. Stop trying to bash MCPS. [/quote]

You're delusional. [b]MCPS definitely intentionally put the Regional IB programs in schools that had abysmal academics to draw kids who have good academic numbers to come to the school and improve their numbers.[/b]

Acknowledging this fact is not "bashing" MCPS. And frankly, I don't mind the tactic if they do a good job of giving those kids positive outcomes in those Regional IB programs. That has not been the case to date at Kennedy. Hence, why Principal Adamson was brought in to clean up that mess.[/quote]

100% this. Regional IB was in fact a marketing scheme to paper over poor school performance. In the end the performance was still poor, because teachers are the same, course offerings are slim, and management was abysmal. There’s nothing special about the IB curriculum that magically better than AP for example. In the end it’s just a band aid, and of course [b]it didn’t work[/b]. I actually feel bad for the families falling the marketing ploy.[/quote]

You know this how?[/quote]

Can you do something more constructive than heckling anyone that criticizes the IB programs? Seriously are you employed by MCPS, at least disclose so we’re clear that you have some other motivations in participating in this discussion.

Put on some data that shows the program worked if you have it, I’ll wait.

In the meantime let’s look at[b] university admissions, diploma rates, program participation rates[/b] and conclude that they point towards regional IBs being a failure at the expense of students and their families.[/quote]

Not the PP, but you are asking for data that does not yet exist. The very first cohort of criteria-based magnet IB kids are in 12th grade this year. We'll know this summer how they did.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but MCPS parents always talk about how there need to be more magnet programs. So now there are three or four more. Cost is minimal since buses were running to those schools anyway - why be mad about it? [/quote]

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