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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know what everyone is blathering about?  It is not as if the schools, teachers or the curriculum is wonderful if a school is ranked high - it just means that the schools have high SES students and they can afford to supplement at home.

The point about schools inability to retain its Asian students resulting in lower rating is equally sad.  First of all, it means that the schools cannot actually teach  non-Asian students to become high achieving. Secondly, it underlines that the Asian students are getting the bulk of their education through self-study, coaching, tutoring, online sources etc., and not the school.  In such a case, including Asians actually skews the statistics and incorrectly credits the schools for their performance.

Talk to students in any magnet school in the area - RMIB, Poolesville, Blair or even TJ.  They will tell you that for every good teacher, they are saddled with 2-3  average or below average teachers. The teachers know that they can do a lackadaisical job of teaching and the students will still supplement at home and self-teach themselves the material.

The best measure of how good a school is if they can take low performing below grade level students and move them up to be on or above grade level.  That is not happening.  [/quote]
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This has been our experience.  The students are great, the curriculum is generally great but the teaching quality is uneven especially at the middle school level where the magnet programs often just put a regular teacher into a magnet class without any special training or experience.  I am not sure if this is the case at the high school level.  I am sure at RMIB they would need special IB training and credentials, not sure what it is like at Blair Magnet[/quote]

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