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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the frustrating elements here is that MCPS has rolled back the ability of the non-magnet IB schools to offer "pre-IB" classes.

It's part of this incredibly upsetting push-and-pull on the part of the Central Office. They want more families to choose B-CC or Einstein and claim to be expanding opportunities to these programs, but at the same time they are gatekeeping course offerings to the point that a teen who is looking for a like-minded peer group and pre-IB classes must wait until 11th grade to access those things. [/quote]

Going back to this PP from the first page of the thread.[u].I could not agree with this concern more[/u]. (Except I felt the pushback was coming from the high school admin and not Central Office, but Central office hasn't helped at all).

Not all 'gifted' kids can realistically manage to attend a magnet...they are logistically much more complicated to attend (e.g. longer bus rides). And as other PPs pointed out, there aren't places at the magnets for all the gifted kids anyways.

SOOO frustrating, and also puts the academically-minded kids at the home school behind...while their peers at the magnets are taking, say, an advanced class, they themselves are languishing in something like 'honors English' ....

May I ask, PP, how you concluded that it's Central Office doing the gatekeeping? Is there some public info that you could point me too?

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