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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're looking at buying a home in Fairfax and want to take high schools into account (our kids are more than a decade from high school and I realize that boundaries move, but we're hoping to only have to buy once). I have a strong preference for AP over IB and was wondering if there was any sense of whether Fairfax may move away from IB long-term. I know this is a bit of a crystal ball question, but I was wondering if there had been any rumblings. [/quote]

OP, buy your home where you find the house you want to buy. There is no rumbling like you're hoping for, and even if there were -- it would be just that, rumbling and rumor, and could change next year or in five years or never. We're very involved in our high schooler's IB FCPS high school and haven't heard any such talk. There are people on DCUM who have a very strong anti-IB bias, and who know little about the reality of doing IB so they tend to spread a lot of wrong information about how the program actually works, so please take with a grain of salt any proclamations about how awful IB is and how they're hearing it's going to be axed.

If your children approach HS age and the assigned HS is an IB school, do an academic transfer to the appropriate AP school. For much of ES (unless  your child is going to move to an AAP center school) and MS (same), you have little to no choice about where you child goes; for HS you can get some choice if you do an AP/IB academic transfer, so that would be of less concern to me, 10 years away from HS age, than the ES and MS for your new home.

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