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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you say 61% of Marshall students participate in IB, you mean that 61% take at least one IP course before they graduate?  That does not surprise me, given the demographics of the neighborhoods that feed into Marshall and the fact that few, if any, AP courses are offered there.

From what I've read, the percentage of Marshall students actually pursuing or receiving IB diplomas is much lower, and that is true at other IB schools in FCPS as well. I find that interesting, since IB appears to be one of the programs potentially on the chopping block as FCPS considers budget cuts.[/quote]

Yes, I'm using US News definition.  That's actually an extremely high percentage by national standards.  Only in FCPS does it seem low.  Typically, around 20% of Marshall graduates earn IB diplomas.  Again, extraordinarily high by national standards.  I'm sure rates would be higher at McLean, etc, if there were an AP analogue.  The whole point here is that quibbling over where Marshall ranks among FCPS high schools really loses perspective on how deep the quality of schools in the county are.  It's not dumping on McLean, etc.  to the contrary, it's acknowledging that they're great schools and saying that the fact that's Marshall's stats are lower doesn't mean Marshall is a Bad school.  To the contrary, it's performance is outstanding.

They won't cut IB.  There's no reason to.  Transitioning to IB from AP involves costs, but after the transition is done an IB program is no more expensive.  Most of the proposed cuts are dramatics by the administration to coerce more money from the county. [/quote]

Nobody has said anything to the contrary.  Can you elaborate on your point?

Interestingly, if you sort the US News rankings by "college readiness," which US News measures as the percentage of students both taking and passing one or more AP or IB exams, Marshall falls from 11th in the county to 15th, which places it in the bottom half of high schools in FCPS, whereas Langley, Woodson, McLean, Oakton and Madison remain the top schools behind TJ.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools-109481?sort=college_readiness_index&sortdir=desc[/quote][/quote]

Nobody has said anything to the contrary.  The point is that all the schools in FCPS are great. Nobody has shat on those schools.  Why do you keep coming back and shitting on Marshall.  Do you disagree that FCPS schools are among the top in the nation?  Someone makeS that point, and you reply with "Marshall's not as good as McLean, et al."  Nobody has said otherwise, so it's kind of tacky.  [/quote]

Either you pay only sporadic attention to threads on this forum, or you mischaracterize what Marshall posters tend to say here.   If you have a hard time with the fact that others point out how Marshall compares to other schools, perhaps you should just let the thread die. [/quote]

What did they say that offends you?[/quote]

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