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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 [b]the official written policy and rules[/b] 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]

The official written policy is three classes per year = partial IB.  No detective work needed.[/quote]
Yes, we get that. No need to keep repeating it. Unfortunately, we need to keep repeating for you that this isn't the problem. The issue is the written policy indicating they will be sent back to their home school if they don't take the minimum required courseload!  THAT's the part we're talking about. Stop harping on the 3 classes. [b]The point is, parents and students aren't eager to [/b][b]transfer to a school with the chance that they'll be sent away their third year in if they decide they don't want to continue the program for whatever reason.[/b] Something WL-zoned students don't have to worry about if they choose not to do full-time, or only want to do one or two classes.[/quote]

That's a really odd comment considering IB classes don't start until junior year.  So you're talking about a kid who transferred to W-L for IB but never actually takes an IB class.  This makes almost no sense.  Yet again. [/quote]

Because IB doesn't actually begin until the junior year - the kid's 3rd year of high school - is precisely why they would risk being sent back halfway+ through their high school years. Parents/students aren't eager to transfer to a school, stay there and meet friends and get involved etc. for two or more years, then be sent to their assigned neighborhood school if they fail to meet the IB requirements to stay their junior or senior year. Makes perfect sense.[/quote]

But again, this would happen no matter which school housed the IB program, because all three schools will not each have IB.  So as long as IB is in one school, students from the other schools could theoretically have to move if they drop out of the program.[/quote]

You just can't seem to understand that the point isn't about location - it's about the policy. And it's a specific part of the policy that can deter students from applying to transfer into the program. Bottom line: if IB is going to be "partially" available, it should actually be partially available to everyone and not just students living in WL zone or transferring into WL; OR if APS is going to spend the money on the program because it's such a valuable curriculum, they should properly invest in it to make it a program in which ALL of the enrolled students are full-on-IB students earning IB diplomas.[/quote]

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