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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [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.]

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 doubt that kids at Hughes are being hard sold on IB, otherwise you would have more then 50 kids completing the IB diploma each year. The AAP kids at Hughes have friends there and are probably chosing to stay with their friends, not that they want to complete the IB program.

Kids are transferring out of IB school before they can take IB classes in favor of AP classes. They are required to take AP classes at the HS that they are pupil placed in. If they don't take AP classes, they have to return to your base school. Do you think that a student taking an AP class as a freshman is not likely to take IB classes as a Junior, when most IB classes become available to students? So yes, those kids who transferred to AP schools and are taking AP classes would have been taking IB classes.

We hope to be pupil placing our son out of an IB school into an AP school. He will have had 2 years of a foreign language at MS, just in case he says he wants to stay at the IB school, so he can take the IB Diploma. If he chooses to stay at the IB program, he will work the IB diploma because it is the most rigorous path at an IB school. If he goes to the AP school, I figure he will take some where in the neighborhood of 10 APs, maybe more.

And yes, there are kids from IB schools that end up at TJ but that is a relatively small number of kids.

SLHS sends 33 kids to TJ
Robinson sends 50
Justice sends 26
Mount Vernon sends 24
Lewis sends 39
Madison sends 66

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Someone has a real problem keeping Madison and Marshall straight on these threads.

The statistics for how many kids Annandale "sends' to TJ are distorted because TJ is located within the Annandale district and some families move into that area after their kids get into TJ for convenience. [/quote]

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