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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The school board keeps IB at the schools that it does, mainly schools with high FARMs rates, thinking that it will entice MC and UMC kids to attend those schools to get this specialty diploma. [/quote]

What they actually think is not that IB will draw good students, but that IB will provide an advanced academic option for the minority students.

[quote]The only school that sees a large influx of kids for IB is SLHS from Herndon HS and that is because parents see SLHS as a better alternative then Herndon HS, not because they love IB. [/quote]

Herndon offers AP. The AP is not enough to keep kids at Herndon, which should tell you it isn't as great as you think it is.[/quote]
No.  You have to look at the other schools.  There are a lot more kids Pupil placing out of IB schools than AP Schools. [b][This is totally meaningless unless you know that the kids were in the IB program. In reality, very few of them at all were likely in IB.][/b]

Here is another reason Herndon kids may be pupil placing into South Lakes:

The AAP kids go to Hughes from Herndon Middle School.  Hughes shares a campus with South Lakes.  The kids are accustomed to going there.
It has the Middle Years IB Program and I am confident that the focus is to get the kids into IB in high school.

Until FCPS eliminates the IB program, this is likely to consider.  The students are being told, I am sure, that IB is superior.  [/quote]

I had a kid at Hughes who went to SL. Hughes was not "focused" [i]at all[/i] on MYP. I was barely aware of its existence. The basic attitude at Highes was "oh yeah you can do that at SL in 9th and 10th grade if you want, but it won't affect any classes you take here." And for that matter not much happened at SL in 9th grade that I can remember... all the MYP stuff happened in 10th grade.

If you are in the SL pyramid you are not "told that IB is superior". You are not, so to speak, given a choice between AP and IB where you are told the pros and cons of each. You're just told that the stronger students do IB and that's how they get into more competitive colleges.[/quote]

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