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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another example of parents exploiting pupil placement options in FCPS to engage in demographic arbitrage.  [/quote]

+1. FCPS is full of parents "exploiting" AAP, immersion, magnet ESs, pupil placement for AP, IB, Academy classes, HS foreign language sequence, TJ, etc. to move their child to the school that best meets their individual learning needs and/or interests. How dare these HS parents do Academy, AP/IB etc placement?  It should be available to evenyone!!  Oh wait. ...

Seriously dude, get a grip.  Someone from Westfield pupil places to Chantilly for the Academy.  I pupil placed from Chantilly to SLHS in February for IB, and then, once decisions were released, amended that and pupil placed to TJ.  All othis is completely legal and above board. It is not like committing residency fraud, etc.  If you are against school choice, take it up with the school board. [/quote]

You sound like a real jerk.  Not everyone is equally situated to take advantage of these "choices," and there's nothing wrong with making sure those who do have bona fide reasons. [/quote]

There are only 5 academic reasons to pupil place: foreign language, academy, TJ, AP and IB.  You DO have to give a bona fide reason, and fill out paperwork, and sign an agreement.  And placement is subject to renewal every year.  If your kid is not following through with the course sequence, they are not renewed. How do you propose to read someone's mind and tell whether someone is transferring to Chantilly for the Academy vs. because it is a better school, if they follow the rules to stay and take the required Academy classes do abide by the contract?  Maybe polygraph parents and kids?

And no, everyone is not equally situated to pupil place.  SES and family circumstances play a role.  As they do in the ability to buy into a school district, the ability to AAP and TJ prep, and the ability to get outside SAT coaching, etc., etc.  SES has always played a huge role in educational achievement. The most FCPS can do is make pupil placement as fair as possible.   Everyone can apply, and the rules are the same for everyone.  What more do you expect?  The only thing I can think of is busing for pupil placement. But having seen the logistical nightmare of TJ busing in action, which is about half of the kids who attend one small high school, it is hard to imagine.  Pupil placed kids can get afree public bus pass though, and most schools have a stop very near the school.  [/quote]

You can't read someone's mind, but you can establish more rigorous criteria than, say, taking 2 AP courses to justify pupil placement out of an IB school to an AP school, and you can make sure the students actually follow through on those undertakings. You can consider whether it makes sense to have an academy program at, say, Chantilly, but not at Herndon or Westfield. You can consider whether concentrating IB schools in the poorest part of the county makes sense, since it means IB participation is likely to be limited; none of those IB schools will get pupil placements from multiple AP schools; and people will use IB as an excuse to pupil place to a higher-SES AP school (see, e.g., Lee transfers). You can look at who actually avails of pupil placement options, and who cannot or does not.

And, then, based on all that information, you can evaluate who gains and who loses from the current system of "choice," and whether it should be retained in its current form or modified.  [/quote]

4 AP classes, not 2, and 3 APs by the  of 11th. Necessary pre-reps before 11th, and lied plan.  (can't say you will take Calc in 11th with geometry in 9th or AP Spanish in 11th with Spanish I in 9th. And again. Placement is for one year. Not reapproved if the kid is not on track to follow through with their AP/IB pupil placement plan.  And the kid returns to base school.

Sorry Chantilly got the Academy and not Westfield. For several years after it was put in, the Academy was considered a drawback, because it brought in voc-tech kids who pulled down SATs. That dynamic has shifted, with expanded high level STEM offferings and public-private partnerships.  But, it's attractive because Chantilly implemented it well.  At the time it was established, I doubt Westfield wanted it.  [/quote]

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