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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Where did you find that IB costs significantly more?  I pointed you to the Program Budget but you haven't taken the time to look at it.  The numbers from the Budget Questions show that the testing fees for IB are approximately half a million per year - total.  The IB Coordinators also teach.  There are other benefits to the school system from IB, including development of the teachers (which FCPS pays lots of consultants for in AP schools) and a rigorous testing program that is graded by unaffiliated experts - these tests also allow for IB students and theschool division to be ranked against competition from around the world.  Finally, IB is a well regarded and accepted program for many international students who may come here for postings and then return to their foreign universities - U.S. citizens who are posted overseas often have IB programs in local schools and can continue their instruction when they are posted back to this area.

Your simple assertions are uninformed and you are too lazy to make the effort to learn even the basics - these are not qualities that lead to success in either AP or IB.  [/quote]

Those numbers did not include the required additional IB staff at each IB school. So the cost is probably over one million more for far fewer IB schools and students.[/quote]

Still deducing without looking up the data - even when I told you where to look.  You may be right.  You maybe wrong.  You've added nothing.  Sad.[/quote]

I can't see how you're contributing much of value to this thread.  Implying that IB is justified for close to 1/3 of the county's high and secondary schools because there are a handful of foreign students who may head off to foreign universities or returning ex-pats who've been in IB schools abroad are extremely weak arguments, and not responsive to OP's question as to why AP is the preferred curriculum.  [/quote]

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