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[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.

And the general assumption is that, if a school has IB, it must have been a school that FCPS decided was in trouble at some point. [/quote]

Re FCPS, there were exceptions like Woodson and Robinson. (Woodson parents then pushed back vehemently and saved AP there.) IB was a 1970s through 00s fad for expanding college prep options across the nation.

But it was also a way to completely restructure the curriculum at schools then perceived to be in dire need of help to boost enrollment, test scores, etc. That gamble paid off dividends for Marshall. [/quote]

Marshall's IB program is not very successful,  if you look at the number of diplomas awarded.[/quote]
Marshall is much smaller than Robinson, but it’s true Robinson’s program is more successful. For 2023-24 school year, it looks like 13% of Marshall seniors got an IB diploma while 17% got one at Robinson. Annandale was the only other school to crack 10%. All other IB schools have less than 10% of students achieving an IB diploma. [/quote]
I know a lot of highly motivated and successful Marshall kids who just decided to skip the diploma because the requirements limit types of electives, etc esp. during Junior and Senior years.  Marshall has academy classes in CS, engineering, etc that are more appealing to some STEM students.  Getting a diploma doesn’t necessarily mean better college acceptance results but the IB writing really helps prepare students for college. [/quote]

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