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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it problematic that Arlington offers two 100/class high school experiences to a tiny percentage of its population (HB & IB).   Clearly, the smaller groupings are hugely desired (I am not saying that desire is merited!).   It’s a lottery for everyone in Arlington BUT those zoned for W&????   That’s nuts to me.  [/quote]

Yes, and if it was Yorktown that had the IB program that would be so much more outrage. [/quote]
Why?[/quote]

Because privilege. [/quote]
Huh? Any more than WL parents' sense of privilege and entitlement?[/quote]

Yorktown has the highest percentage of white students and lowest percentage of farms students. If those students automatically could be accepted into IB, because of where they already live due to privilege, yes, I believe there would be more outrage than it being at WL.[/quote]

Well, then let's move it to YHS so we can get more outrage. I am against the neighborhood kids' access policy; so I'm all for increasing the outrage.[/quote]

It would cost too much to just move it and plop it someplace else on a whim. And the Yorktown community would likely not want it there.

As others have said, few people (if there is anyone else) share this outrage. APS is not unusual in its current implementation of IB at one school. Other districts do it like this. [/quote]

I'm not seriously advocating to move it to YHS  :roll: 
I really don't care if a lot of people are not outraged. I disagree with the policy; others don't. Nevertheless, "because other districts do it like this" does not change the "equity" or my opinion of it. I really don't care where the program is located. I just believe it should be a full-time program for full-IB students. I could be wrong, but I don't believe just any student at Wakefield can take a course in the Spanish immersion program just because they speak Spanish well enough and want to or because that's the only option for taking a Spanish literature course. [/quote]

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