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It's not about poor scores. It's about poor teachers. [b]I've spent years in MCPS and can tell you that the best teachers are in wealthy area[/b]s, and sometimes Focus elementaries. It stands to reason, no one wants to have a harder job of it. The IB program needs special training that even good teachers sometimes lack, so imagine what happens in lower-performing schools.

I'm not saying it's not worth a try! But I highly, highly doubt the graduating students will have good scores on their IB exams. I'd be delighted to be proved wrong.
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I really don't know how any MCPS teacher can have any informed basis for saying this. You know the teachers you know (a very small fraction of the teachers in MCPS), you don't know the teachers you don't know (a very large fraction of the teachers in MCPS), and unless you have personally worked with them, [b]there's really no good way to know anyway.[/b][/quote]
Actually, the people who know the quality of the teachers in all of the schools are the consulting teachers. They visit all of the schools while supporting new teachers, and in the process get some interesting insight into the quality of the different departments and of other teachers in the building. I've known former secondary CTs in English, Science, and World Languages, and all of them have been under-impressed with teachers at some of our wealthy schools. They aren't terrible, but they aren't great either. They have no need to have the best skills, because their students come in with a ton of knowledge already and are highly motivated to get good grades, regardless of what the teacher does.

-HS teacher[/quote]

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