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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS turned a few high schools into "regional IB" programs four years ago. I remember that magnet admissions season and there was a LOT of angst over kids who applied to RM being instead seats at these regionals instead. And I remember an awful lot of unpleasant assertions that these schools / students would not perform at the same level as RM. It was ugly. Sometime really ugly.

So I am wondering how it has gone for the first cohort? I've heard about several admissions to T20 universities at our regional IB. More than there had been before. How about at your regional? Do you think it all worked out or do you think it was all for show and that MCPS failed?[/quote]

Just stop.

MCPS did not "fail"

Learn the history of why there are Magnet schools to begin with then come back with your propaganda.

These schools are good. They serve a specific segment of the student population.  Just like any other HS experience it will be different for different kids.

You have zero idea what you are a talking about. Stop trying to bash MCPS. [/quote]

You're delusional. MCPS definitely intentionally put the Regional IB programs in schools that had abysmal academics to draw kids who have good academic numbers to come to the school and improve their numbers.

Acknowledging this fact is not "bashing" MCPS. And frankly, [b]I don't mind the tactic if they do a good job of giving those kids positive outcomes in those Regional IB programs. That has not been the case to date at Kennedy. [/b]Hence, why Principal Adamson was brought in to clean up that mess.[/quote]

Why would you have expected the regional IB programs to have better outcomes compared to before? If it were that easy to turn around a school with an IB program, we would just switch all schools to IB and solve all the problems in education. It was just a distraction.[/quote]

Because the whole point of the regional program was to lure top kids to the school.  It wasn't the IB curriculum, which was in place at Kennedy before this program.[/quote]

It still remains the goal to this day. [b]They make it seem that the program is the way to an ivy admission.[/b] I can’t really fault the gullible parents looking for an edge for their kids, I’m more shocked at the dishonesty of the administrators that make all those fake claims with a straight face.[/quote]

"They" who? Who said that, and where and when did they say it?[/quote]

They, the IBO. Can you spot the lies and the dishonest sales pitch?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/schools/high-schools/a-j/kennedyhs/uploadedfiles/programs/ib/ib20dp20college20info202012.pdf[/quote]

I'm certainly spotting dishonesty, namely yours. That doesn't say what you say it says. Who are you so oddly invested in hating on the IB program? Did you used to work for them and they fired you? Did you both want to adopt the same dog at the animal shelter, but the dog went to the IB program instead of you?[/quote]

Strange that you don’t think claiming an average admission rate of 58% at UC Berkeley for IBD graduates is dishonest. Cornell is 31%! Princeton is 16!

Do you think it’s ethical that school administrators make that kind of presentation in information nights for parents?

How about the claim that “there is no more challenging curriculum than the IB curriculum”. How can you say that when your school has only one HL science course?

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First, you don't know how to read a data table.

Second, what is the basis for your belief that this is dishonest? Other than, "Nuh uh, that can't be right, therefore they're lying!"?[/quote]

Your critical thinking shtick is lamer than you imagine.

Who has the burden of proof here, me or the people making the claims? By this argument it’s ok to make any kind of statement to students and their parents, as long as it can’t be proven false, and you put a broken link as a “reference”.

You can also evaluate these claims against common knowledge and empirical observations. If those numbers were true, year after year you’d see graduates going in large numbers to these universities, but you don’t!

Why don’t you explain to me how to read that table, what did I miss? Got it, Stanford 15%!
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