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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The RMIB is a test-in program.  A cohort of smart, competitive, and hard working students spend four years together learning, exploring, charlenge themsilves, and developing friendship.  It is like an All-star team.  I dont understand why some of the posters dont appreciate this magnet program.  It is not for average students.
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Yes, I think that everybody understands that the RMIB is a test-in program with a cohort of smart, competitive, and hard-working students.

So then your answer to the question, "If IB were offered to all students in MCPS, what would be the reason for maintaining a separate test-in IB program at RM?" is, "The students who are admitted to the program benefit from being around each other."

But I'm not sure whether that's a sufficient reason for a public school system to maintain a program.[/quote]

IB is being offered in many MCPS HS but the students find the full diploma program hard and they do not do the complete program (a'la carte IB is popular),  or when they do the full program they might not score well enough to qualify for the diploma.   Any student in any MCPS school who gets the IB diploma has actually achieved something remarkable.   97% of the students in the RMIB program earn the full IB diploma.

IB program is a better program than what is currently available to most students in the US, because it imparts a well rounded education, teaches students to critically analyze topics, is interdisciplinary, global in approach and students are taking the exam that other top students from around the world are taking and they are being graded outside of the US - so no grade inflation. 4

Thus the RMIB program and other IB programs in various MCPS schools should exist only because  we should strive to keep raising our education standards instead of lowering it. There are bound to be academically superior and advanced students in any school system and we should encourage them and challenge them.  Just like we educate other students to their abilities, similarly the advanced students should also be educated to their abilities.   Grouping like ability students in the same classroom created more efficient and conducive environment in the classroom for the teacher to impart the curriculum.

If IB was offered to every single MCPS students and they were forced to do the full IB diploma then there would be no reason to have a test in IB program.  By the same token though - the entire magnet curriculum and requirements of Poolesville and Blair should be made available to the entire MCPS HS population and the same instruction, enrichment and acceleration should be followed for all the students. Furthermore, all MCPS students should be graded on the curve and be graded as stringently as all magnet students.   Fair is fair.

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