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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/to-some-opposition-fcps-considers-boundary-policy-overhaul/article_d3dacdfa-afd9-11e9-b2fa-9f370ff28b07.html

"Providence District Representative Dalia Palchik says that the cost currently makes it infeasible to implement in-demand services like the International Baccalaureate programs in every school, noting that enrollment in IB programs is sometimes closed due to a lack of capacity."

This is not my impression at all.  I'm pretty sure that more want AP.  Someone posted a list of AP/IB PP, but I cannot find it.  Which is getting more?  And, of course, it is difficult to tell about demand because some schools close their placements.  [/quote]

You can’t really judge from the pupil placements any more, because so many schools are now either closed to transfers or limit them.

Most of the top schools in FCPS are AP.  There has been no effort by parents at Langley, McLean, Oakton, Madison, Woodson, Chantilly, Lake Braddock or West Springfield to replace AP with IB.

IB does cost more than AP, and FCPS put it primarily in poorer schools, so I’m not surprised that someone like Palchik would try to suggest the location of IB programs reflects a commitment on FCPS’s part to do more for the lower-performing schools. But any effort to replace AP programs with IB at the top schools would be met with strong opposition.[/quote]

Well, here statement does not reflect my impression that more IB school parents would prefer AP than vice versa.[/quote]

Her statement may not, but when it was easier to pupil place because fewer schools were at or above capacity there were more transfers to AP schools. And even now Lee and Mount Vernon (both IB) are losing a lot of kids to transfers and the school with the most net placements is Lake Braddock, which is AP.[/quote]

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