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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Robinson parents should demand a survey be conducted. Perhaps the PTA could spearhead this effort.

The School Board will likely refuse because they don't want to hear the results and know there would be ripple effects.[/quote]

The Robinson parents won’t do this because they don’t want retaliation from teachers. A good portion of the teachers don’t like to have their feathers ruffled.

Moreover: the parents of the kids already in school don’t want their kids to switch out. I[b]t would be better to survey 6th grade families instead.[/b] That way they can transition over and not interfere with current student schedules.

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DP. Sixth grade famlies will have zero idea what the debate is about. The effort to inform them would have to be huge and it will be extremely difficult to get a lot of parents' attention onto this--many will just not understand or care why they're being asked this when their kid still isn't even in MS (most of FCPS sixth graders are in elementary schools). And getting out objective information? Forget it. Too much pro-AP, anti-IB sentiment among those who would be the most vocal. [/quote]

Wait a second.

You don’t seem to get RSS starts at 7th. So 6th grade parents are learning about the school and choosing whether or not to send their kid to LBSS in the future.

And you also seem to think the bias would be too strongly against IB that it wouldn’t be a fair chance.

WT actual F.

It really seems to me that a) you think that 6th grade parents aren’t already thinking about this and are stupid and b) anyone who chooses against IB is stupid and therefore shouldn’t have input.

Based on this kind of elitist snobbery: I’m going to say that AP is not equitable. It isn’t flexible enough for stupid people like us who want our kids to focus on certain classes if that’s where their interests are.

I am with the PP: make an IB magnet school and leave everyone else AP. See who shows up for enrollment. Have DE for high Farms rate schools.[/quote]

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