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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly. Allowing students w/o the comforts of privilege access to IB and a core set of AP courses benefits both W-L and APS in its mission. Wakefield has a bespoke curriculum that helps in a similar fashion. Yorktown is different— it has an affluent in-bounds student body, and therefore doesn’t need any unique program. [/quote]

I don't find that convincing at all.  APS plays favorites, everyone knows it, and it means the top high school punches below its weight, the favored one ends up overcrowded, and the poorest one ends up ignored. [/quote]

Without special high school programs to attract transfers, we’d have two high schools with mediocre test scores serving the less affluent southern portion of the county, and one high school with all the accolades serving the affluent northern half. Because of the current high school boundaries, that’s how it would play out. That seems worse than the status quo, where students from all walks of life attend W-L.

W-L is not favored. Given the center of affluence in the county, if any high school should be favored, it would be Yorktown. But APS doesn’t play favorites. 
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Because of the unique programs that attract transfers, students from all walks of life attend [b]both[/b] W-L and Wakefield. [/quote]

There are plenty of students from all walks of life living in both the WL and WHS zones. WL doesn't have diversity because of its IB program, for cryin' out loud! Seriously, that's what you think gives WL its "students from all walks of life?" Or Wakefield??!![/quote]

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