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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 think you mean IB schools.[/quote]

Technically, yes, the high school is the IB school, but they are incorporating some aspects of IB into the middle schools. And if you want to be fair, it would be better for everyone in the pyramid to have a say in whether or not the top of the pyramid has AP or IB since they are supposed to matriculate through to the high school. You have to be aware that some folks would vote to keep the program they did not like so that they could later use that to transfer their student out of the school (a devious motivation). Still, wouldn't it be nice if the School Board would allow the families within the pyramids to have a say?

And for several of the high schools, the outflow of transfers caused by the AP-IB choice is quite substantial and usually removes high performing students. Thus, one of the reasons we have high schools moving in opposite directions of each other within the county. It is not just about transfers, people already living within certain pyramids (those pyramids folks on here like to debase because of their low Great School ratings) will go to great expense and trouble to move locally to avoid low-rated high schools. And newcomers are told to steer clear of those same schools. Result - those schools have more and more trouble and have little chance of improving.[/quote]

The outflows from IB schools would be higher still if some of the AP schools weren't now capping, or closed to, transfers.[/quote]

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