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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bottom line:  IB costs significantly more and more people prefer AP in any case.

Sure fire information that will ensure the SB never changes it.  It makes too much sense to eliminate IB programs in some of the schools.[/quote]

You are confusing "people prefer AP" with "people prefer to buy real estate in school districts that happen to be zoned to AP schools".  Y[b]ou don't know that people buy there BECAUSE of AP offerings at schools,[/b] or that they wouldn't be if AP was not offered.  Th[b]e fact that Marshall is an IB school did not slow down the buying in its district[/b].  Quality of schools is a factor of SES of people zoned for these schools. An IB school in a rich area will be better than an AP school in a poor area.  I sincerely hope that is not a surprise to you.[/quote]

We did!  We were looking in Vienna (and a little in Reston and along the Ffx Pkwy).  Any house zoned for an IB school was a deal-breaker right off.  There were a number of houses in the upper Vienna (Beulah area with names like Prelude and the like) and they were in our price range and a little more up to date than others in the Madison zone.  I had to explain to our realtor why none of them would work (b/c of IB).  It was just a no-go for me.  (In theory, I think IB diploma candidates are amazing, and the program sounds good on paper.  I just wasn't willing to hook my kids into that program or have to drive them to an AP school day in and day out if we were in an IB zone.).  Maybe that isn't the case for other people, but it has been the case for me with Edison (in the past when we looked over there), Robinson (when looking down the parkway) and South Lakes (when looking in Reston).  [/quote]

Prelude goes to Madison. Anything south of Clarks Crossing goes to Madison. Your realtor should have known this.[/quote]

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