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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][quote=Anonymous]Why would any parent send their kids to a watered down “magnet”.  Won’t happen. Look at what they tried to do the IB programs at Watkins mill and Kennedy.  [/quote]

They'll go if the host school offers better opportunities than the home school and they can swing the commute.

We are zoned for Einstein. I have hope that Einstein will be a good place for my DC, especially since it will be a relatively smaller school. DC is pretty average academically and will probably be well served with standard MCPS courses available at every high school. But BCC and Blair definitely offer a wider variety of courses, and there are public buses to both of these schools with stops near our home. Whitman would probably be too difficult, nor is it the environment I'd want for DC especially away from all their friends.[/quote]

For kids who don't want STEM, Einstein is perfect.[/quote]

I really hate for this rumor to get traction. My Einstein grad is in college for engineering, his good friend who also graduated from Einstein is studying chemistry in college, and a third friend is majoring in physics at UMD. This is flat-out incorrect, apparently driven by that one poster who is annoyed that Einstein doesn’t offer multivariable calculus. [/quote]

Rumor?  There are two engineering classes right now, both taught during the same period/same teacher (who is a good teacher and tries hard but its an impossible task).  There are no AP science classes at Einstein right now.  Things have changed a lot since your kids went to school.  Don't tell us we are lying when we have kids at the school.  Is it possible they get in, of course.  Does it make it harder when you don't have the same rigor, absolutely?  [/quote]

I still have a child at the school. It is disingenuous to say they don’t have AP science classes, because it’s an IB school and they have IB science classes. And you don’t have to have engineering classes in high school in my opinion.[/quote]

I just checked the test stats from OSA (office of shared accountability. Believe it or not, there is still somewhere in central office that talks about accountability). Einstein do not consistently offer IB HL math (missing 2022, 2023), IBL bio (missing 2021, 2024) and IB Physics (missing 2020, 2022) in the past 6 years. Not too bad as other local IB programs also miss data here or there. Springbrook and Watkins Mill seem to be most seriously seen missing offering IB courses in a consistent pattern. [/quote]

IB and AP aren't equal.  IB is very different.  Not al kids want AP.  Yes, you do need to do engineering if you want to major in it in college.  Your opinion is wrong.[/quote]

What are you talking about? Neither AP or IB curriculum offers engineering specifically. For college application, if they don't see an engineering class on your school's bulletin, they won't force your child to take an outside-of-school equivalent. Your kid is judged amongst their peers, i.e., other seniors at Einstein, not seniors from Blair or Wheaton. So if your kid is really interested in engineering track, he/she should take IB physics and/or IB chemistry/bio to demonstrate the interests and foundation.

I don't understand why HSs should offer both AP and IB. That could be too overwhelming, and honestly speaking, AP is slightly more rigorous, difficult and broader choices than IB in general sense. I really think we shouldn't have so many IB programs in the first place.[/quote]

Einstein used to offer both AP and IB science classes several years back, and they couldn't get enough students to register to keep offering both classes, so they dropped the APs in favor of IBs, as they are required to offer IB science classes as an IB school.[/quote]

There are enough students to hold at least one class.  The issue is that many kids are going to Wheaton and Blair or private schools because of the lack of course offerings.  If it were offered, perhaps more kids would stay at Einstein, making it a stronger school.  The admin actively discourages kids from taking advanced classes, including Calc BC.  Maybe some of the posters here are the ones saying its not necessary and not caring about how much it hurts students.  Competitive programs want to see AP science, engineering, computer science and other classes.  If a student is equal in grades and scores but has more stem, they will be choosen.[/quote]

There are tons of high schools in the US that don't have any AP or IB classes. Colleges know that students can't control which classes their school offers. If you take your school's highest level courses, colleges will know that and look favorably on your application.[/quote]

And that’s fine, but our kids are competing for spots with other Mcps students and the educations are not comparable or equal.  Your comments make no sense.  Why should all students have equally opportunities.  Why should my tax dollars go to pay for other kids who are equally smart as mine to get more opportunities and a better education while mine go without?  By you logic no school should have so or advanced classes. [/quote]

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