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Watkins Mill IB can't be a good as RM IB (unless you make RM worse) because the students there are less capable.

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Oh, do tell! What makes Watkins Mill students "less capable" in your mind. This should be fascinating. [/quote]

Not OP, but it's not less capable as in less than, it's less capable in that RM is the top 1% of the county v Watkins Mill takes top 5-10% it's obviously not the same

Think top 1% in wealth, they are billionaires, v top 5-10% are millionaires.  There is a difference[/quote]

My kid graduated from RMIB.  There definitely kids at home schools that are as smart as the RMIB kids.  BUT the RMIB is a particular program that requires particular interests and motivation.  It's a ton of work.  So you need a kid that is really smart, but ALSO basically loves being a grind, AND also loves a lot of reading/writing and philosophizing about reading/writing ("theory of the mind" stuff) AND doesn't mind a lot of bureacracy mandated by apparently someone in Switzerland.  Can they fill several schools with those kids?  I don't think so.  It's a rare bird.  I don't really know why they are pushing so many of these schools, and I doubt the demand or success rates will be there.  I don't think my kid would have left our home school for a program that was basically watered-down because the kids weren't that into it.  [/quote]

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