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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of us who are not familiar with these programs, can you.give more details about what makes them failures from your perspective?[/quote]

[b]Watkins Mills has an IB program. School rating is a 3.5. Farms  81.8%.[/b]

Richard Montgomery has an IB program. School rating 8. Farms 39.3%

You see anything here? Having the IB program there did nothing for Watkins Mills.

Now they are proposing more such nonsense.[/quote]

How on earth is any school supposed to succeed with a FARMS rate of 81.8%?! Geez. I graduated from WM way back, and it's distressing to see what the school and surrounding area have become.[/quote]

I don't know where that 81.8 percent came from.  I checked a couple of places, the first round and second round of effects tables and mdreportcard and all three sources has Watkins Mill's FARMs rate hovering around the 50 percent mark.  When I looked a while back I don't think any school in MCPS has a FARMS rate above 80 percent.  Some had more than 65ish.

We actually know a couple of families who were happy with Watkins Mill and seems like their kids are doing pretty well.  Personally I don't think it's the right fit for our family.  But it goes to show that for the most part people are happy with their schools and maybe a slight case of not knowing what they're missing too.[/quote]

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