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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]

This is also exactly the same feeling from Blair and Poolesville SMCS students/parents. A student can only benefit from these programs only when they are extremely self-motivated, have good time management skills, and being the top few percent in terms of aptitude and knowledge breadth and foundation. Every year there are quite some students in the program struggle and suffer and they'd fit better and gain confidence in their home schools. But parents do not feel the same way. They tend to be always too confident (or pushy in another sense) in believing their kids are the best and omnipotent. [/quote]

All of this points to water-downed programs in the new regional model. And since the plan is half-baked, it won't work for students in struggling schools just as much as it won't work for anyone else, including highly able students.[/quote]

Just because a student isn't in a high rated school, what ever that means doesn't mean they aren't bright, gifted and capable of doing the work.[/quote]

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