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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The program is expensive and 80% of the kids are not using it for its intended purpose.[/quote]

lmao the IB diploma program is not expensive. It consists of 8 school-based teacher positions (out of ~25,000 full-time staff) and cost $3.3 million in FY25 (out of a $4bn total FCPS budget so 0.08% of the budget).[/quote]

DP.  It's more expensive than AP, and provides limited benefits while adding unnecessary complexity to FCPS, inviting pupil placements, and complicating things like boundary adjustments.  If FCPS really wants to be revising boundaries every five years, they should get rid of IB. [/quote]

People just... say stuff.  :roll:

IB is not more expensive than AP. In fact AP is more expensive than IB. There is no reason to think IB adds more complexity than AP or has more impact on boundaries than AP.[/quote]

Then they have done a crappy job explaining the program to people. More kids pupil place out of IB schools then complete the diploma. Every other county in our area has made the IB an opt in program that you transfer for and not forced schools to be IB only. APS has kids apply to be in IB at W-L, Loudoun has IB as an application program. The rest of the student population as access to AP. FCPS is probably not going to do that because they know that it will be a small number of kids who want the IB program. [/quote]

dp. I was an IB student. Many kids want the extra challenge of the IB diploma, but ultimately the diploma doesn't matter. Kids can get the benefit of an IB education without the diploma. The benefits come from the more rigorous class content. That's why the school board doesn't care to eliminate established IB programs; low diploma numbers are meaningless. [/quote]

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