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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Robinson had 164 IB diploma candidates in the class of 2017 - that is hardly a handful, nor is it a "poor" school.  You can't generalize about the FCPS IB program because every school is different, just like the schools that only offer AP classes.  Some are better than others.[/quote]

I wonder whether, given a choice today, parents of rising 9th graders zoned for Robinson would vote to retain IB or move back to AP.  It seems like that might curtail the large number of pupil placements to Lake Braddock. [/quote]

It would be interesting to see, if given a chance to vote or otherwise express a preference, how many of the IB pyramids would choose to stay IB and how many would choose to go back to AP.[/quote]

I actually don't think there's a large outflow. If anything, I think people in the surrounding areas choose it.

One reason there is pupil placement isn't IB. It's the AAP program. Lake Braddock is the Center for Robinson feeders. A lot of kids choose to stay and pupil place to stay with friends and not change schools. That's the biggest reason people pupil place and there are posts by posters complaining about not having a middle school AAP option in that pyramid on this board.

With that, you'd expect to see a large outflow and a loss of AAP students from Robinson. And while you might, you also see other high achieving students pupil placing for IB. [/quote]

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