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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole AP/IB debate is getting quite stale.  Have your child take the most challenging courses they desire at the high school that is offered to them. If that is AP, fine. If that is IB, fine. If it is honors, fine. If it is (gasp) regular courses, fine.  The endless need of people on this forum to justify why one is better than the other seems to be more of a pride issue than anything else.  I took more AP courses than I can remember when I was in high school.  Once you get to college, guess what?  Nobody cares whether you took AP, IB, honors, homeschool, whatever.  All they care is how you perform once in you're in college.  And, if you go to decent college, no amount of AP or IB is going to fully prepare you - you're going to be challenged even further beyond those high school courses. [/quote]

I think the issue is the IB costs more than AP for the county to implement, so if there is no need for it, why not put the money towards something else?[/quote]

I agree, and this point has been made countless times on this forum  It is what it is.  If someone doesn't like it, go talk to your school board member and say you want it changed.  [/quote]

Maybe the poster wants to raise awareness of the cost differential.  Going to your school board member doesn't have to be the only way to express your views. [/quote]

And I am voicing my opinion that I am tired of hearing about this debate on this forum and that I think it serves little purpose other than venting. [/quote]

I'm the poster who raised the cost issue again. I have a grade school child, so I'm not sure how much of an influence I am with high school issues, but I will mention it. At the grade school level we have many more pressing issues to deal with though and I can't be complaining about everything to them. The push to the school board really has to be from middle and high school students and their parents. Also, I think it does need more awareness, especially since one poster didn't even know there was such a big cost difference. At one point, perhaps IB was needed, but now with the new AP option and the lack of funds at all grade levels, I think it should be reconsidered or at least evaluated.[/quote]

It is my understanding that there are IB schools in neighboring jurisdictions and the AP capstone program is merely being piloted. So it is at least two years before students at Oakton HS (and anywhere else?) would begin to take the AP seminar course. So by the time students go through at Oakton, and FCPS assesses how the pilot worked, it is at least five years from now.

So yes, a comparison may be done, but it is likely in 2019-2020 at the earliest.[/quote]

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