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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Starting a new conversation from a point within the Boundary Review discussion.  I teach in an FCPS IB school and have taken a 40 hour course with teachers from around the world as well as trainings with in-county teachers. I'm amazed at what can be done in flexible, smaller schools and agree it can be an amazing program for students. That said, it does not work within our huge district: just some of the factors that inhibit it are large CLTs of several teachers in a content area needing to plan and stay on pace together (and never having planning or time off with teachers of other content areas), testing and SOLS, goals of equity among hundreds of schools, etc. etc. etc.

In addition, schools pay IB for accreditation based on how many teams/teachers are passing on complicated rubrics to students, how many cross-curriciular projects are happening (however surface...has your FCPS child in an IB school done any meaningful cross-subject learning??) and it's obviously within IB's interest to "pass"/approve them.

Is there any serious discussion in FCPS of eliminating IB?  A working group? School Board members looking into it?  Parent groups? Petitions?  Anything? [/quote]

Thank you for your post. Would you consider bringing your concerns to your school board reps or speaking publicly at a school board meeting on the topic? You’ve got a unique and powerful perspective on this.

The BRAC is starting to consider scenarios now, so it’d be good to get this in front of the superintendent and the school board asap.[/quote]

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