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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Hard to believe but Herndon used to be a tad better than SLHS.

Stu Gibson (then Hunter Mills board member) moved Fox Mill from Oakton to SLHS despite the community opposition. SLHS became a mediocre school (used to be bad).

Town of Herndon went downwhill mainly because of a large inflow of illegals. HHS became bad.

Many HHS kids transfer to SLHS for the IB program. This is only case I know where a large number of students opting for an IB school from an AP school. [/quote]

Oakton is in the Providence District.  Gibson wouldn't have been able to orchestrate the South Lakes boundary changes in 2008 without the support of other School Board members, including Janie Strauss (Dranesville), who got assurances that Langley and Herndon would be left alone, Phil Niedzielski-Eichner (Providence), who got part of Chantilly moved to Oakton in exchange for moving part of Oakton to South Lakes (he was worried Oakton's sports teams would decline without additional bodies), and Kathy Smith (Sully), who went along with the others and got rewarded in other ways. [/quote]

Yup.

That's the key difference. Meren doesn't seem to have many allies in the board.

Fox Mill was screwed in 2008.  Maybe a better luck this time.

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Fox Mill was merely screwed, Floris was royally so.[/quote]

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