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.2 mile difference is insignificant. You are already at South Lakes which is not far or overcrowded.[/quote]

Feel free for advocate for your school all you want. I would prefer my child at the new school, we are opting in. Note that I do that without throwing other schools under the bus or telling others where their kids should go.

We do not want IB and the school board has ignored the families who have asked for AP to be added to SLHS, even though Robinson has AP and IB. People have been asking for AP at SLHS for the last 25 years and been ignored. People have been pupil placing to AP schools for 25 years, which has been ignored. There are a small number of people who want IB, a good number of indifferent families, and a large number who demonstrate their dislike for IB every year. SLHS is at capacity and there is construction in the area, like every HS but Herndon in this part of the County.

So I am going to advocate for Fox Mill to move to the new school, which has AP, is closer to our house then SLHS, and keeps him with his friends from Carson.

I doubt that Fox Mill will be moved because I think that people are worried are about what happens when those kids are moved. They were moved there 20 some years ago to improve test scores, which happened. And so the people who don’t like IB will pupil place to Western. I will guess that the numbers will increase because people will prefer Western to Herndon and they can choose the special program tracks for moving.

Maybe if the school board listened to the thousands of kids who leave IB schools across the county for AP and set up IB as an opt-in program at a few schools while offering full AP at all schools there would be less pupil placement. But the school board doesn’t listen so there you are. [/quote]

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