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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP, hands down.

Look at the six top neighborhood high schools in FCPS: Langley, McLean, Oakton, Madison, Woodson, and Chantilly.  They are all AP.

If IB provided any advantage, parents at these top schools would be demanding IB at their schools. They aren’t.  In fact, when FCPS tried to saddle Woodson with IB, the parents organized to get the decision overturned.,

Conversely, IB is concentrated in the county’s poorest high schools, where parents are less vocal, and less likely to object to a program that infatuated FCPS for a brief period in the late 90s and early 00s, but really hasn’t worked out very well. Schools like Annandale, Justice, Lewis, and Mount Vernon are demonstrably weaker than they were 20 years ago pre-IB.

As for IB’s heavy emphasis on writing, there is also a lot of writing requires in many AP courses, including the AP Capstone courses.  However, AP courses generally focus more on the acquisition of substantive knowledge, and there’s less busy work. [/quote]

The only way to learn to write is to do it.  And then do it again and again until you develop some skill and competence.  It is hard.   My DC had benefitted greatly from that hard work in HS now that DC is in college.[/quote]

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