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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BCC gets the regional IB, not Einstein. [/quote]

Thats because B-CC's IB students get better scores on the IB exams.[/quote]

The some smarter kids bail in the DCC to Blair and Wheaton as Einstein does not have a lot of stem and ap classes.  Very few kids actually graduate with a with a ib degree.  [/quote]

Putting a regional IB program in Einstein would not be as attractive to applicants as BCC.  These regional programs need to have some credibility to counter those who are complaining about the changes to the county wide program.   [/quote]

The IB programs in the other regions are at less affluent schools. That’s the core goal of magnet programs generally and why MCPS has historically placed IB programs at schools where adding advanced programs will provide the highest benefit.

RM was in danger of closing because wealthy families were leaving for other schools. MCPS placed the IB magnet there to improve educational outcomes and attract students into the school.  They added IB magnets at Kennedy and WM for the same reason. Putting an IB magnet at schools like BCC with high scores and graduation rates is just gilding the lily.

They probably picked BCC to attract Whitman kids who won’t want to commute to Einstein. Whitman gets the world languages magnet for the region. It’s likely Whitman-BCC will be an unofficial sub-region, swapping students between themselves, plus a few going to whatever STEM is left at Blair after it’s cut from countywide to regional.

Northwood and Einstein will lose more students than they attract because MCPS is giving them the least popular magnets. Enrollment will drop, which will mean staff cuts, and weaker course offerings.

Taylor’s plan is basically flipping the whole magnet philosophy on its head to boost rich schools at the expense of poor schools. [/quote]

Exactly! Looking at his plan, it is worsening segregation and making rich richer, making poor poorer, making competition more competitive, all under the name of equity. [/quote]

I do not see that, overall.  I see individual decisions that would tend to do that.

IB @ B-CC might be one, but that could be rectified by moving Humanities (and making it criteria-based) to Northwood, giving it heft, Performing Arts to Einstein, giving it cohesion with a unique focus, and Education to B-CC, boradening access.

I see a similar problem with Region 4, where placing a new SMCS at Wootton totally tilts the academics towards the Wootton-Churchill duopoly.  Instead (and since they need to create that program, anyway, even if creating it at Wootton would be [i]easier[/i], given its current offerings), move SMCS & Engineering to Rockville, where they would tend to even out overall academics, Leadership & Public Service and Humanities (criteria-based, again, for this) to Wootton, broadening access, Languages and Education to RM, where they would fit better with IB, and Performing Arts to Churchill, again for cohesion with Visual Arts.[/quote]

It very much is doing that as all kids go to their home school except for special programs.  The course offerings are very different between the richer and other schools.  [/quote]

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