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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The boundary review made it very clear that parents don't want their kids to be moved from one school to another. This is even more true when the move requires moving from a higher ranked school with better test scores to a school that it far lower in the rankings, with bad test scores, and fewer offerings of higher level courses. Toss in moving kids from an AP HS to an IB HS and you have all sorts or rioting.

The school board is trying to limit students moving out of the lower ranked schools by removing the pupil placement option for a foreign language, which will turn off the moves from one AP school to another for a language, think Herndon to Langley for Russian. It does nothing to stop the move from an IB school to an AP school, which provides plenty of room for kids to leave Lewis. Removing the language option does reduce the students ability to ask for a specific school because they want to take a language offered at West Springfield that is not offered at Lewis or the other near by AP school that is not over enrolled. [/quote]

There are fewer than 10 transfers from Herndon to Langley this year.  On the other hand, there are 158 transfers from Herndon (AP) to South Lakes (IB).

They have shown no interest in replacing IB with AP at schools, which would eliminate the basis for many pupil placements.  On the other hand, they do seem intent on having AAP at every middle school and that should reduce the number of high school pupil placements out of pyramids like Herndon, Lewis, and Robinson that don't have middle school AAP centers.  If and when every middle school has AAP that could require adjustments at middle schools like Rocky Run (which would lose a lot of kids) and Thoreau (which would gain a lot of kids), with accompanying changes eventually to some high school boundaries.

Apart from that, there were a number of boundary issues that weren't addressed this year, but which Reid has said will be revisited by January 2027.  FCPS staff has said they include:

1.  Gunston/Halley/Laurel Hill/Lorton Station ES boundaries

2.  Bren Mar Park ES feeders

3.  Greenway Downs/Jefferson Village/City Park Homes/Kingsley Commons

3.  Rolling Valley feeders and Keene Mill ES.  [/quote]

Interesting on Herndon, I remember reading about there being a parent paid bus to get kids to Langley from Herndon using the russian langauge so I thought the number was higher than 10 kids. I knew about the SLHS kids, I think people have explained that as the AAP kids who attend Hughes pupil place a SLHS using either IB or Japanese, now it would have to be IB.

But yes, making IB a program kids can apply to participate in, like Loudon and Arlington do, while having full AP at every school would end a lot of the pupil placement and would bring back some higher test scores to the IB schools that lose kids to AP placements. I believe that the kids who apply for the program in other counties commit to completing the diploma and not just taking 4 IB classes.

I do like that they are putting AAP at all the MS and eliminating MS Centers. There are enough kids coming from different ES to have AAP offerings at all the MS. That will reduce some of the desire to pupil place to be with friends from ES and MS in HS. [/quote]

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