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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think has to do a lot more some people trying to avoid schools with high FARMS and URM rates. This, of course, happens all over the US, and not surprisingly, in many countries in the Americas and Europe. [/quote]

Right. South Lakes is mostly affluent and white, but it has more low income students than Lake Braddock for example, so it is perceived to be inferior. [/quote]

South lakes is inferior because of IB.[/quote]

"Inferior" according to the DCUMers who have an irrational hatred of IB.

Not inferior according to the UVA and W&M admissions officers who love IB students.[/quote]

They might love IB Diploma students, but the rest (majority) don't get much love. "Hatred" is the wrong term. Most of us under the reality that IB is problematic.[/quote]

IB as it's currently offered in FCPS doesn't pass a cost-benefit test.

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Cost-benefit for who? It definitely benefits the kids.

If you’re talking about “cost to the county” then I suggest there are lots of more significant costs in a $3.7b budget.

If the IB teachers weren’t teaching IB, would they all be fired? Big savings, yay! Or would they be doing something else? No savings, boo! The latter seems more probable.[/quote]

The teachers can teach AP and other courses.  We don’t need to be paying stand-alone “IB coordinators” who aren’t teaching kids. [/quote]

What is that, eight employees out of 40,000? GMAFB.  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

Why on earth would FCPS pay for 8(!!!) IB coordinators?

Fewer than 500 FCPS stidents earn and IB diploma.  That is roughly 60 students per one FCPS IB employee.  High school teachers have well over 150 students per teacher, and growing next year.

What a huge, colossal waist of money.

At most, FCPS only need 2-3 IB coordinators for the entire district.[/quote]
FCPS uniquely used IB to stem middle class flight—25 years ago it was white flight—from schools perceived to be failing or in danger of closing. Hence the plethora of schools and coordinators. Yes it is very expensive.

It was not designed as a program for a select group of highly motivated IB diploma bound students—the paradigm at other school districts that introduced IB with selective admissions.  [/quote]

It’s the law of unintended consequences. FCPS wanted to give declining schools something “special” and ended up further stigmatizing them.

AP is a much better advanced program for most students, and that’s why the real top tier in FCPS consists entirely of AP or AP-plus schools:  TJ, Langley, Oakton, McLean, Madison, Woodson, and Chantilly. [/quote]

What is “AP-plus”?[/quote]

Courses that are taught at a higher level than a standard AP class.  Common at TJ, and generally limited to some advanced math classes at other AP schools. [/quote]

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