Anonymous wrote:Wow 15:31. Do you think yanking this several-days-old post back from oblivion to post your insults and VBA is a good reflection on RM moms? Sadly, I think I know you.

15:31 here: My insults? "Liberal mom with 2 kids at Blair" first called me "a total asshole" and I so called her "a bitch" (tit-for-tat). I have no clue what VBA means (don't bother explaining b/c I'm confident it's negative); I couldn't care less whether my post "is a good reflection on RM moms"; but, most importantly, I wouldn't knowingly associate with someone who would make such an asinine comment. So if you do know me, please do us both a favor and head the other way (or, since gladly I don't think I know you, please introduce yourself so that I know to stay away).

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And, as for your curiosity as to "why 15:31 is throwing flames on a thread I hoped had died, that deserves to die!" -- it's because people like you keep directing posts to me. However, I'm not glued to this thread, nor am I a regular visitor to this website, and will only respond when/if I stumble across a post directed to me. So the response could come immediately or hours/days/weeks after the post(s) specifically aimed at me, but rest assured, if you throw flames at me, I'm going to throw them back at you. Childish, I know but that's the beauty of an anonymous post. And although I thought "liberal mom with 2 kids at Blair"'s name-calling was unnecessary and gratutitous, I'm certainly willing and fully capable of jumping down to that level of discourse and "being a total asshole" with the best of them.

RM mom, it's time to put a sock in it. Now you're just embarrassing yourself.

Hitler. Hitler. Hitler. Hitler. Hitler. Hitler. Third time's the charm?

Anonymous wrote:I'm 16:40 and I too am interested in hearing why 15:31/16:11 chose RM over Einstein given her little finger wagging in 16:11.

But I have to say, IB is not be definition harder than doing 9-10 APs at Whitman or Churchill. There have been other threads on this. For one thing, kids take AP tests starting sophomore year, which is more pressure than tge IB test at the end of senior year when all the college decisions have been made.

But most of all, I'm curious why 15:31 is throwing flames on a thread I hoped had died, that deserves to die!

I'm the 15:31/16:11 poster: I didn't choose RM over Einstein (we don't live in the DCC) but chose RM over Blair because when we compared the then-available HS opportunities for our child -- i.e., comprehensive/signature program at assigned school, RM IB, Blair Math & Science, and Blair CAP (eligible b/c attended MS magnet in DCC) -- RM came out on top but it was very close (and I'm well aware that we are very fortunate that whatever choice we made would have been a good one). So being called a "total asshole" by a "liberal mom with 2 kids at Blair" was added proof for me that we'd made the right call.

And, as for your curiosity as to "why 15:31 is throwing flames on a thread I hoped had died, that deserves to die!" -- it's because people like you keep directing posts to me. However, I'm not glued to this thread, nor am I a regular visitor to this website, and will only respond when/if I stumble across a post directed to me. So the response could come immediately or hours/days/weeks after the post(s) specifically aimed at me, but rest assured, if you throw flames at me, I'm going to throw them back at you. Childish, I know but that's the beauty of an anonymous post. And although I thought "liberal mom with 2 kids at Blair"'s name-calling was unnecessary and gratutitous, I'm certainly willing and fully capable of jumping down to that level of discourse and "being a total asshole" with the best of them.

Hitler. Hitler. Hitler. Hitler. Hitler.

There, will that do it?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 16:40 and I too am interested in hearing why 15:31/16:11 chose RM over Einstein given her little finger wagging in 16:11.

But I have to say, IB is not be definition harder than doing 9-10 APs at Whitman or Churchill. There have been other threads on this. For one thing, kids take AP tests starting sophomore year, which is more pressure than tge IB test at the end of senior year when all the college decisions have been made.

But most of all, I'm curious why 15:31 is throwing flames on a thread I hoped had died, that deserves to die!

I have to disagree, PP. How much do you know about IB? It's very rigorous. Most 9th and 10th graders who take AP classes do it b/c they're "encouraged" to sign up. Most scores are abysmal, as they just don't have the abstract skills to be able to handle that level of critical thinking. (not all, as there are always exceptions)

IB is a two-year program that begins in grade 11. It very much like earning a liberal arts degree.

very different philosophies

So please don't make assumptions based on what you've heard. I'd suggest you talk to students in the program and to teachers trained in IB before you make false statements.

Aaccck. I want this thread to die down too. But this nonsense can't be left out there without some factual corrections. (Worse, I'm guessing you're IB mom with a bone and an attitude, given your completely unnecessarily nasty swipes about me knowing nothing, "making up assumptions" and "false statements" from thin air. Interacting with you sort of gives me the creeps, but that's neither here nor there.)

Please don't make your own false assumptions, that I know nothing about IB. We actually went to two area MoCo IB program open houses, and in the end turned them down. We know LOTS of kids in the RM program. Meanwhile, my kid has taken 5 AP classes so far, and has received 5's in the two for which DC has received scores (more AP scores due next week). It's a TON of work.

You are impugning AP students completely unfairly when you make statements in bold above, like, "they are just encouraged to sign up" and that they "end up with abysmal scores" because, you apparently think, AP kids are slackers or something. In fact, your statement that they "don't have the abstract skills to handle that level of critical thinking" actually undermines your whole argument that AP is "less" rigorous than IB.

BOTH IB and AP programs are rigorous. Your slap at AP students, and presumed sense of superiority about IB, makes you look unreasonable.

Well said. But can this please be the last words on this thread (of course, not counting this one -- sorry). Or at least pick-up the IB versus AP topic on a new thread.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm 16:40 and I too am interested in hearing why 15:31/16:11 chose RM over Einstein given her little finger wagging in 16:11.

But I have to say, IB is not be definition harder than doing 9-10 APs at Whitman or Churchill. There have been other threads on this. For one thing, kids take AP tests starting sophomore year, which is more pressure than tge IB test at the end of senior year when all the college decisions have been made.

But most of all, I'm curious why 15:31 is throwing flames on a thread I hoped had died, that deserves to die!

I have to disagree, PP. How much do you know about IB? It's very rigorous. Most 9th and 10th graders who take AP classes do it b/c they're "encouraged" to sign up. Most scores are abysmal, as they just don't have the abstract skills to be able to handle that level of critical thinking. (not all, as there are always exceptions)

IB is a two-year program that begins in grade 11. It very much like earning a liberal arts degree.

very different philosophies

So please don't make assumptions based on what you've heard. I'd suggest you talk to students in the program and to teachers trained in IB before you make false statements.

Aaccck. I want this thread to die down too. But this nonsense can't be left out there without some factual corrections. (Worse, I'm guessing you're IB mom with a bone and an attitude, given your completely unnecessarily nasty swipes about me knowing nothing, "making up assumptions" and "false statements" from thin air. Interacting with you sort of gives me the creeps, but that's neither here nor there.)

Please don't make your own false assumptions, that I know nothing about IB. We actually went to two area MoCo IB program open houses, and in the end turned them down. We know LOTS of kids in the RM program. Meanwhile, my kid has taken 5 AP classes so far, and has received 5's in the two for which DC has received scores (more AP scores due next week). It's a TON of work.

You are impugning AP students completely unfairly when you make statements in bold above, like, "they are just encouraged to sign up" and that they "end up with abysmal scores" because, you apparently think, AP kids are slackers or something. In fact, your statement that they "don't have the abstract skills to handle that level of critical thinking" actually undermines your whole argument that AP is "less" rigorous than IB.

BOTH IB and AP programs are rigorous. Your slap at AP students, and presumed sense of superiority about IB, makes you look unreasonable.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 16:40 and I too am interested in hearing why 15:31/16:11 chose RM over Einstein given her little finger wagging in 16:11.

But I have to say, IB is not be definition harder than doing 9-10 APs at Whitman or Churchill. There have been other threads on this. For one thing, kids take AP tests starting sophomore year, which is more pressure than tge IB test at the end of senior year when all the college decisions have been made.

But most of all, I'm curious why 15:31 is throwing flames on a thread I hoped had died, that deserves to die!

I have to disagree, PP. How much do you know about IB? It's very rigorous. Most 9th and 10th graders who take AP classes do it b/c they're "encouraged" to sign up. Most scores are abysmal, as they just don't have the abstract skills to be able to handle that level of critical thinking. (not all, as there are always exceptions)

IB is a two-year program that begins in grade 11. It very much like earning a liberal arts degree.

very different philosophies

So please don't make assumptions based on what you've heard. I'd suggest you talk to students in the program and to teachers trained in IB before you make false statements.

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Pass the lighter fluid - this poster managed to fan the flames for a full paragraph.

Yes! And you (and now me) are keeping it going. How absurd.

I see it as sort of meta thing. You have to admire a thread that has legs, and so you try to figure out what keeps it going. Some of these posters have real stamina for grudge holding. The Silver Spring-Langley Park spat was pretty amazing and pointless at the same time. And talk about quick fuses! Nobody's called anybody else Hitler (Godwin's law) yet, though, so it's not quite over.