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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since today is notification day, I was looking up what we would apply to next year for my son who is in 7th now. We zone to BCC. Compared to all the other schools, it seems like BCC kids (and the other Western/Southern schools) don’t have any magnet/application based options outside of [b]Blair SMCS[/b], RMIB, and Poolesville Ecology. My kids is a Biomedical/Engineering kid. Those application based magnets look fantastic. Why don’t the kids in our area get that option?[/quote]

The only one that's a true intellectual standout is the bolded. It's the TJ of Maryland. The other two are very nice, but not any better than W schools. The other "special programs" you are thinking of are not really selective. [b]They're attractively-packaged to attract kids to traditionally under-served areas of the county, but the intellectual rigor, content quality and peer cohort just aren't there.[/b]

Eventually most parents realize this, and also take note of the ridiculous commute. [/quote]

Some of us actually live in traditionally under-served areas of the county, and our kids are doing just fine on intellectual rigor, content quality, and peer cohort, thank you.[/quote]

DP/DCC.

Disagree.  A reasonable number of highly capable kids, but not enough of an identified and encouraged cohort to ensure rigor.  Look at the IB offerings at the regional/local IB schools and compare the HL rigor and options for complementary APs at those schools versus that available at RM or BCC.  It is not the same.

It might be different if they had enough room at Blair, where the numbers from being the largest school population in the state (and the reasonable cohort further enabled by their application programs) [i]do[/i] mean a goodly amount of advanced courses, but there isn't enough room there to accommodate those others who would benefit from that course availability.  They are trying to get Kennedy IB up, but they set it up as a cart before the horse kind of thing, hoping to draw a cohort better to enable more advanced course offerings when the thing that might draw such students in the first place would be [i]to have those offerings in place[/i].  That would mean $, however, to support teaching of courses in initial years when the numbers of students might be few.[/quote]

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