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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If not enough kids choose that course when in the course selection stage, they don’t run it. At my school, a class will not run if there are not 15 students enrolled. So most likely, not enough kids at your school expressed interest or chose this class in course builder. [/quote]

For Physics??

Physics is a basic requirement for college bound students.

How does it happen that a northern virginia high school fails to offer physics.

OP mentioned IB, which means it is one of the low performing schools like Lewis or Mount Vernon.  FCPS really needs to ditch IB.  They claim they care about "equity" but then force a low quality IB education on our lowest performing schools.

Ditch IB, but in the meantime, run the physics class even if it is just 5 kids hetting essentially a small, private school/homeschool/tiny rural school class experience.

At the minimum,  FCPS owes it to the poor kids getting shortchanged by IB
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Every HS offers Physics.  The complaint is that some high schools aren't offering a more challenging ("Senior level") Physics course such as AP Physics or IB HL Physics. [/quote]

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