Fight at Wakefield 5/31

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see what the TJ test removal has to do with anything. The school is just as hard once you get there as it was before, just barriers to opting in to that intensity have been removed, esp in FCPS where they have AAP. It isn’t like oh, you came in by lottery, here is your no-AP non-Intensified easy track.

Prior to this upcoming school year, the only way for a student from outside the W-L boundary to transfer to W-L, was to transfer in to the full IB program. That means that a student had to commit to doing a full IB diploma while students in boundary for the school can choose to take an IB course here and there but don't have to commit to the full program. If a transfer student decided they no longer wanted to do the full IB program, they would have to return to their neighborhood school. So much like the TJ test, the full IB program requirement was a barrier for some students. It's now been removed and students may do a transfer without committing to the full IB program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see what the TJ test removal has to do with anything. The school is just as hard once you get there as it was before, just barriers to opting in to that intensity have been removed, esp in FCPS where they have AAP. It isn’t like oh, you came in by lottery, here is your no-AP non-Intensified easy track.

Prior to this upcoming school year, the only way for a student from outside the W-L boundary to transfer to W-L, was to transfer in to the full IB program. That means that a student had to commit to doing a full IB diploma while students in boundary for the school can choose to take an IB course here and there but don't have to commit to the full program. If a transfer student decided they no longer wanted to do the full IB program, they would have to return to their neighborhood school. So much like the TJ test, the full IB program requirement was a barrier for some students. It's now been removed and students may do a transfer without committing to the full IB program.

The IB requirement has only been removed for transfers from Boulevard Manor in the Yorktown zone and all students in the overcrowded Wakefield zone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see what the TJ test removal has to do with anything. The school is just as hard once you get there as it was before, just barriers to opting in to that intensity have been removed, esp in FCPS where they have AAP. It isn’t like oh, you came in by lottery, here is your no-AP non-Intensified easy track.

Prior to this upcoming school year, the only way for a student from outside the W-L boundary to transfer to W-L, was to transfer in to the full IB program. That means that a student had to commit to doing a full IB diploma while students in boundary for the school can choose to take an IB course here and there but don't have to commit to the full program. If a transfer student decided they no longer wanted to do the full IB program, they would have to return to their neighborhood school. So much like the TJ test, the full IB program requirement was a barrier for some students. It's now been removed and students may do a transfer without committing to the full IB program.

It's still irrelevant. There were limited IB transfers available regardless of how many applied or qualified. More students are now able to transfer because there are more seats available. And some previous poster seems to think this will drain Wakefield of a whole lot more "good" students who aren't the ones who would get into a fight and therefore that somehow will make the violence at Wakefield worse. Like these "good" kids are preventing a bunch of other fights somehow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see what the TJ test removal has to do with anything. The school is just as hard once you get there as it was before, just barriers to opting in to that intensity have been removed, esp in FCPS where they have AAP. It isn’t like oh, you came in by lottery, here is your no-AP non-Intensified easy track.

Prior to this upcoming school year, the only way for a student from outside the W-L boundary to transfer to W-L, was to transfer in to the full IB program. That means that a student had to commit to doing a full IB diploma while students in boundary for the school can choose to take an IB course here and there but don't have to commit to the full program. If a transfer student decided they no longer wanted to do the full IB program, they would have to return to their neighborhood school. So much like the TJ test, the full IB program requirement was a barrier for some students. It's now been removed and students may do a transfer without committing to the full IB program.

The IB requirement has only been removed for transfers from Boulevard Manor in the Yorktown zone and all students in the overcrowded Wakefield zone.

Agreeing with 3 PPs ago: still not seeing what the TJ test removal or the IB contingency waiver has to do with anything.

[Anonymous]

W/L transfers had to commit to full IB going in, but didn’t have to finish. Standard way to get out of Yorktown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:W/L transfers had to commit to full IB going in, but didn’t have to finish. Standard way to get out of Yorktown.

We get the policy, already!
What does it have to do with OP's post?