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Excellent - thanks for providing the context.  It's interesting how an anonymous forum can generate such extremes of good and terrible information/opinion...    I really wonder if Langley would reject IB if they were sure it would not open the gates to pupil placement.  As it is Langley and McLean students pupil place to Marshall to take IB - so there is some demand.  Of course, any single program is not for everyone and anyone considering these decisions must do some real work to understand the pros & cons.  [/quote]

You can speculate, but there are eight high schools that have had IB for 15-20 years in FCPS, and Langley parents aren't exactly wallflowers.  If large numbers thought IB would be an improvement, they've had plenty of time to ask for it.   That hasn't happened.  Also given Langley's location in a corner of the county, they'd have no reason to fear "opening the gates to pupil placement" since most students at AP schools would still be closer to another IB school.  The exception would be the eastern part of the McLean HS district, but McLean doesn't send all that many kids to Marshall for IB.  [According to FCPS, Marshall had 60 "Student Transfer Regulation" out-placements last year, compared to 53 at Langley and 47 at McLean.]

More likely, if FCPS proposed to convert Langley to IB, there'd be a repeat of the Woodson situation years ago, with parents organizing a successful effort to reverse the decision. 
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