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Anonymous
| Is IB some kind of European thing? |
Anonymous
Wow TJ is turning 3rd world what a shame, Langley, justice and Annandale are doing it right, they should use them as the standard you don't want more poverty in schools it drags down education and increases crime and drugs |
Anonymous
But it is fair for someone else to be re-assigned to another school? They have to assess boundaries once in a while. It’s not “fair” to anyone. I wouldn’t want to re-assigned from our high school but I’m not delusional to think I was entitled to stay in same HS when I bought. It’s not a certainty unless you live very close to a school. |
Anonymous
Districting is political. Neighborhoods on the wrong side are going to lobby their representative to fight it. Some are more successful than others. |
Anonymous
There’s so much to unpack here. Why don’t people like you just send their kids to private school and shield them from the poors? |
Anonymous
Yes. The IB Diploma is supposed to mimic or create a more European approach to HS then the the US diploma. I know it is not a perfect mapping but I have always viewed the European HS Diploma to an Associate degree from a community college. It feels like the European HS experience is more focused on picking an area of study, taking classes across the major areas but choosing a major and minor field. I know it is not a one to one comparison but that is my feel for the situation. The IB is meant to mimic that experience. Kids who complete the IB Diploma are supposed to be more easily accepted into International Universities then kids who don’t. That said, I think a straight A student from an AP school probably has very few problems getting into an International School. |
Anonymous
Pretty sure that "third world TJ" is a troll--trying to get exactly the reaction you gave. |
Anonymous
+1 Example: South Lakes redistricting where the SL PTSA chose the neighborhoods they wanted and turned down others. |
Anonymous
Pretty much everywhere else IB is an impressive program from both the university's and parents' perspective. But Northern Virginia is a bubble in that most parents want their kids to go to JMU, VT, W&M, or UVA, and then kids return home to Fairfax County for work. The breadth and flexibility of IB isn't really taken advantage of in this area. |
Anonymous
FWIW, W&M in particular seems to appreciate the IB diploma. |
Anonymous
I think there is a substantive, meaningful difference between redistricting to a school that has the same academic program but different demographics (whether wealthier or poorer), and redistricting to school that has a different program (such as IB rather than AP). IB is a more specialized, niche program, and while FCPS might want to make it available to those who want it, it should not be changing boundaries and reassigning kids to IB schools when those families often made a deliberate decision to buy in an area where the schools offered the more flexible AP curriculum. That’s my opinion anyway and, while a future School Board might ignore it, they stand to see more families exit FCPS entirely if they push them involuntarily into IB schools. |
Anonymous
Disagree. IB seems to impress people the most when it’s added to a school in a jurisdiction where the schools previously offered little in terms of any advanced academics. It had its day in FCPS where people got excited about it in the late 90s and early 00s but, with several decades of experience under everyone’s belt, the thrill is gone. Now it’s kind of a relic but FCPS is too sclerotic to do anything about it. And unfortunately it also locks them into existing boundaries at the HS level because they know how upset most people at an AP school would be if reassigned to an IB school. |
Anonymous
That was in 2008. The more recent example was the GFCA telling Elaine Tholen in 2021 which McLean neighborhoods (hint: only SFHs, no apartments) they would accept getting moved to Langley. |
Anonymous
Sort of bizarre to talk about the most internationally recognized HS curriculum as if it's some 90s/00s fad. Fairfax can really be a provincial bubble sometimes. |
Anonymous
Rental housing, be it townhomes or single-family residences. Rental housing stock has exploded as homeowners become landlords and investors and corporations are buying up houses and turning them into rental properties. |