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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is this so hard? 
My kid is graduating from W-L this year and is in the IB Diploma program. She is a transfer from Wakefield. She has many friends (also transfers) who chose partial IB (3 classes per year). Partial IB is an option for those who don't want to go the full IB route. They weren't sent back to their home schools. [/quote]

It's not hard, basically one PP didn't know that partial IB was permitted per the policy so now wants the whole IB system to be overhauled or gotten rid of entirely.[/quote]

No. The policy is the policy. It has a minimum requirement to stay at W-L as a transfer of SIX IB classes. You are saying that they have bent the policy. That is different.

And pray tell how is the average applicant supposed to glean that they bend the policy????

[b]I guess the insiders know.[/b] Hence the inequity. [/quote]

As has been said repeatedly on this thread, anybody who bothers to talk to the IB coordinator, anybody who talks to kids who transferred to W-L for IB, anybody who talks to their neighbors, their kids' friends' parents, blah blah blah.  It's fairly common knowledge in Arlington for anyone considering having their kid apply for IB that a non-zoned need only take 3 IB classes a year to stay at W-L once the student has transferred. There is no inequity here regarding this information.  It is not some top secret information that W-L zone parents learn and swear upon pain of death not to share with Wakefield or Yorktown zone families.  You or your kid must not have been that interested in IB because clearly neither bothered to learn much about it.  [/quote]

NP. I think you're ludicrous to expect or believe parents would, or need, to do that much "research" about a program - there is no reason any reasonable person would expect to NEED to talk to all those sources just to find out if the official written policy and rules about the program are indeed enforced. Are parents supposed to talk to the principal and teachers and seek out others who attended Montessori to find out if the program actually follows a Montessori pedagogy? WL parents' self-righteous and superior attitudes are so tiresome. I absolutely LOATHE whenever someone refers to somebody else "speaking from their place of privilege;" but that's exactly what WL parents are doing whenever somebody criticizes something about WL or suggests something that might take something away from their kid - even if their kid isn't participating in IB, the mere suggestion that maybe their kid shouldn't have automatic access for dabbling if they should one day want to take an IB course is taking away something. Parents who take the written APS information about the program are not at fault. Stop blaming them.[/quote]

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