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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On AAP threads in DCUM there are plenty of parents who come on to complain how AAP should be "open to every child" and hate that it's selective. Everyone should have the chance to be academically challenged, is the theme. Fair enough.

Yet IB is actually open to every student, and still parents complain, this time because not enough students (in their estimation) do it because it's [i]hard[/i].
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Ugh.  The IB parents are a prime example of a special-interest niche group within FCPS.  For the most part, their argument boils down to "you owe us:  we are willing to send our kids to lower-SES schools, so we deserve an expensive program for our snowflakes, regardless of how much it costs or how few students benefit."

The argument fails because the focus needs to be on the students that FCPS actually has, not the students FCPS wishes it had.  If IB were going to draw people to schools, surely we would have seen this happen by now.  But it hasn't, and most of the students who attend the schools with IB programs clearly would be better served by AP.  They aren't going to head off to university in England and have meetings every week to discuss their IB-honed essays with their dons; instead, when they go to college, they are looking to save costs and get credits as efficiently as possible.  So we end up with a program where only 10% or so of the students at IB schools get IB diplomas, and the other 90% are stuck with a curriculum that is less flexible and more cumbersome.  Meanwhile, everyone has to pay for the costs of IB, and the fact that FCPS won't eliminate or at least cut back on IB sends a strong message that FCPS is incapable of spending its resources wisely.

We do not need PYP or MYP, and the IB diploma program should be limited to no more than 2-3 schools.  [/quote]

You f'king ahole. So, lower SES parents can't ask for what's best for their kids? [/quote]

You are kind of a dimwit.  It's not the lower SES parents who jump up and down over IB and call it a "school within a school."[/quote]

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