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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gee, I guess Yorktown and Wakefield students are just totally screwed since they don’t take life-changing IB courses like the amazing kids at W-L. I hope they can write a sentence by the time they graduate…lol. [/quote]

Not sure what post you're referring to? Unless you just have a chip on your shoulder from other posts about the IB program. The OP just asked a simple question about WL IB. Stay on topic.[/quote]
PP was referring to the PPP's comments about her kids' great writing and critical thinking skills etc. which are attributed to the IB program available only at WL.

I agree with PP's first snarky statement about WHS and YHS being screwed - because I'm sick of the praise and glorification of WL and how everyone has to be able to go to WL or their kids are doomed for life and how devastating and unfair if they're districted away from WL during a boundary process.  We were zoned for Jefferson MS and the IB program was very disappointing.  Hardly anything to rave about.

I don't agree with PP's second snarky statement though  - precisely because it IS snarky WHILE the general writing program in APS actually sucks.  Unless your kids take a lot of AP and AP seminar, they DON'T learn to write more than a short one- or two-page essay.....which they've been learning to do since elementary school.  IB students in high school do more writing and that is a positive; but most of that doesn't happen until junior and senior years.  And it doesn't make WL the holy grail of public education.[/quote]

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