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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I don't understand is why people get all worked up about this?   If you don't like the IB or AP program at your base school you can people place.  Both programs have pluses and minuses.  Shouldn't we be grateful that students are at least offered a choice?  Instead you've got people yapping bizarre things like, "AP is better because more Asians choose it?"  I mean honestly, can't we all just accept that different people want different things and there's no right answer except the program that's right for your kid?  [/quote]

If you pupil place, you have to provide your own transportation and your child could be going to a school far from your home with very few, if any, neighborhood friends.  Having your child start high school in a school where he or she knows no one might be what gets people worked up, especially if your child's base school offers a program that only a tiny percentage of the student body opt to take.[/quote]

What? Come again? [/quote]

If your base high school offers IB and you pupil place to an AP school, you need to figure out how to get your child to the AP school, there is no bus.  Because of the bus issue and the fact that the designated AP school for my DC is not close to our neighborhood, DC knows no one who will be attending the AP high school.  The base school is one of the schools with low IB participation and its been like that for 20 years, so I do wonder why FCPS keeps IB at the school if so few people opt for the program.  Some schools like Marshall should be IB, but if the program is under utilized for decades, I see the merit in reassessing and seeing whether AP is a better option for some schools.  I know it won't happen, I'm just pointing out why people might "get all worked up."  If DC decides to do AP, we can figure out the transportation issue, but not everyone can, so for many there is no real "option."[/quote]

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