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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think people have a right to a particular school assignment but, let’s be honest, it would suck to buy within the boundaries for a high-performing AP school and then get moved involuntarily to an IB school when you had no interest in that program. [/quote]

This. I don’t think we live in an area that is going to be redistricted but you never know. We paid too much for our house because we wanted an AP school and choose Madison for commute reasons.  I’d be upset if we were redistricted to Marshall or South Lakes because [b]I’m not interested in IB[/b].  It’s not about house values.  I’ve seen people post responses telling people they should have bought in district when they are complaining schools are closed to pupil placing.  [/quote]

Having access to an advanced hs program whether it's IB or AP (and most IB schools have a handful of AP courses) is a luxury. Many, many hs in the US have neither or far more limited options.  Yes you might be upset if this happened, but there's a lot of fair yet still upsetting things that happen.  Look on the bright side--if you have a strong kid going to a school with slightly lower average performance they'll have an easier time getting into college because they are looked at in the context of their school.[/quote]

We moved out of an IB district so we could be within five miles of two good AP schools.  We really disliked the IB environment so it would have been very upsetting if FCPS tossed us back into an IB district just because of our race and/or SES.

At some point the School Board members are going to have to come to terms with the relative unpopularity of IB, which has probably magnified rather than mitigated some of the demographic and performance gaps among schools.  As best I can tell, however, they are still drinking the IB Kool Aid.[/quote]

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