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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in the first class at RM.  What I can tell you from 25 years ago is that it prepared me in a way for college that I don't think AP could have done.  I ended up at an Ivy and it was a cake walk compared to HS.

With AP, you pick and choose your courses.  So you have English, History, Chemistry and they are discrete topics.  In the IB program, it's much more cohesive so it brings everything together.  In English, you learn about the subtleties of Shakespeare literature while in history you are studying the political events that are occurring and are causing Shakespeare to write the literature.  In science, you are recreating the experiments that people are being ostracized for in your history class.

The most valuable skill the program taught me was time management and advocating for myself.  Everyone in my class got pretty good about speaking up with history, english, and math all wanted to test on the same day.  25 years I'm sure they have a better system in place.  The time management skills though prepared me for college and the actual work force.  An assignment was given one day and it may not be referred to again until the due date.

25 years ago, we were segmented into a hallway pretty much isolated from the other kids.  It was fine but I will say my high school experience socially was much different from DHs who was in a regular MCPS HS program.  With the amount of work to be done, there just was no time for drinking, finding dope, skipping class, etc.  DH and I often laugh that we both have a diploma that says Montgomery County High School on it.  We had vastly different academic and social experiences.[/quote]

Thanks for this insight.  [/quote]

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