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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get rid of IB.  People have been screaming this for over 20 years.

There used to be information on the cost difference to FCPS and it was significant.  However,  I cannot seem to find it now.[/quote]

Or do what Loudon and Arlington do and make IB opt in. They house the program at specific schools and the kids who are interested in IB apply for the program. In applying, they are agreeing to pursue the IB Diploma. They are provided transportation to the school closest to them that provides IB. Set one IB school for the North, South, East, and West of FCPS and kids can opt into that program. Have a full AP program for all of the other students in the school. Kids who want IB can make the choice to attend an IB school, parents don't have to worry about transportation, everyone else can do AP.

The parents who want a school within a school or really value IB can send their kids to those schools. Everyone else has AP. [/quote]

Please stop. They are not getting rid of IB.  They love IB and faithfully renew the contract with the IBO every year.  Getting rid of IB is not on their radar and certainly won’t affect the Skyview boundaries.  If anything, moving Fox Mill to Skyview locks them into keeping IB at South Lakes, because South Lakes’ maintaining a reasonable enrollment becomes  more dependent on a large number of transfers “for IB” every year from Herndon. [/quote]

I think what'll be interesting to watch is with SLHS moving back to similar to the old pre-2008 boundaries is the school going to tank again.  Pre-2008 there wasn't much of a reputational difference between Herndon and South Lakes, so I don't know how many would use IB to transfer from Herndon to South Lakes now...[/quote]

Honestly, if they didn't send FMES to Skyview you would have seen an increase in the number of kids pupil placing for AP. Skyview is closer then Herndon and we all knew that there are busses leaving from the Floris neighborhood, which parents can apply to have a pupil place kid ride. SLHS loses about 250 kids to TJ and AP placement, mainly to Herndon. Change the AP school from Herndon to Skyview and that number goes up.

The number of students pupil placing from SLHS to Herndon is going to drop. The number going to Skyview will probably be high, even with losing FMES and Floris because those were not the only ones interested in Skyview. I know that there are some Hughes students who opted in to Skyview.

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Currently Floris busses go to Westfield and Westfield's not available for AP transfer from the SLHS Floris and Fox Mill since Westfield's not closest AP HS.  With the change to Skyview, the Floris busses will be to the nearest AP HS with space and any FMES kids west of the Parkway are easy walking distance to several current Floris stops and even easier with the new stops for SLHS Floris at Skyview.[/quote]

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