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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two things can be true.
IB can be a good program.
IB is not the right program for FCPS.

FCPS is ridiculous to go through a boundary study while they keep IB as the program in some schools.

Compare the value.  IB loses here.[/quote]

I do see some value to this take. But PPs continue to conflate value of IB with the performance of the schools where it’s been placed. Zero correlation.

If your average American suburban parent is more comfortable with AP, ok, no issues. But to sayFCPS should just do away with IB shows defensiveness toward other students’ elite hs record.[/quote]

The thread is about which high schools is FCPS are prestigious - associated with excellence in their academics and extra-curricular programs.

One hallmark of a prestigious school is a pervasive culture of achievement. IB schools in FCPS don’t have that culture. To the contrary, they tend to single out a small number of kids as deserving special attention, which underscores their top achievers are exceptions to the general mediocrity of those schools.  [/quote]

I can decode the title of a thread. And it quickly morphed into IB bashing.

[b]The hallmark of a prestigious school is its rigor. IB’s tops AP’s.[/b] And it’s ok that it isn’t for everyone.

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NP.  You can't be serious.  There is not one IB school that is considered "prestigious".  And you need work on your apostrophe placement.[/quote]
No boo…there isn’t a single non-TJ school that’s considered “prestigious.”  The top tier 1-2 list has more to do with wealth than anything else.  I’m kind of low key chuckling at all these adults losing their minds over this list and the whole AP vs IB debate.  Forgot aiming for AP vs IB or prestige—-invest in some therapy for your poor kids bc you parents are cray-cray. [/quote]

Hmm.  Did you write the bolded, above?  If so, it seems *you* are calling certain schools "prestigious".  All you have to do is line up the SAT scores from all FCPS schools to see which are the highest scoring.  And all of them have AP, not IB.  Enough said.[/quote]

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