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[quote=Anonymous]I think the thread is going to devolve into a typical argument as to whether kids should only go to an IB school if they know they want to do the full IB diploma program.  I tend to agree with the PP about that, but it's not really what OP is asking about.  She's asking whether there's a good chance that FCPS will switch some of the IB programs back to AP in the future.

On that score, there's not a lot of reason to think so.  People have been saying for years that it's crazy to have five IB schools (Annandale, Edison, Justice, Lee and Mount Vernon) concentrated in the part of the county where it is probably the LEAST likely that a significant percentage of the students will do the full IB program, and FCPS has done next to nothing to revisit that concentration of IB schools.  Instead, they listen to the small minority of parents of kids at schools like Lee who got an IB diploma.

This would matter less if it remained easy to pupil place, and OP knew it would easy to arrange transportation to an AP school in the future.  But FCPS gives principals the discretion to close their schools to pupil placements when they are above capacity, and more principals have been exercising that discretion as their schools have filled up with in-boundary kids.   So the simple answer for OP is that there's a chance FCPS will drop IB at some schools for AP, but she can't count on it, and she really just ought to focus her attention on AP schools if that's the curriculum she prefers.  Let someone else duke it out over whether non-diploma kids at IB schools are at a disadvantage or how many AP courses are comparable to a full IB diploma. [/quote]

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