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[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]

Why should they have to pupil place and go to school without friends they've grown up with? Why should high schools continuously get lower ratings than they would if they were AP schools further keeping these schools in poverty. It remains that Langley, Mclean, Madison, Oakton, Woodson, and Chantilly - the top schools in Fairfax are all AP schools. No one is clamoring to get into an IB school except Marshall and that school is a draw because of their academy programs just as much as their IB programs, plus I think half of the transfers come from Falls Church just wanting to get out of that high school boundary.[/quote]

The schools I think you're talking about would not have higher ratings if they were AP.  Nor would this pull them out of poverty.

I would put Marshall (an IB school, horrors!) against any that you've mentioned.   You need to get out of the past and do some research.  But wait, don't.  I'd rather my kids were at an undiscovered, underrated school that is actually great, than one filled with children of people like you.

btw, few kids, if any people place for the academy.

Again, why is having a choice so offensive to you?  In the areas you're talking about most kids start driving themselves late sophomore year, so the bus argument is irrelevant.   And most people who read these boards would carry their kids to TJ on their backs if the kids could get in so the pain of having to get kids a ride or carpool, I'm not buying.
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