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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting to me that in Arlington people clamor for IB at Washington-Lee (even from Yorktown) and that in Falls Church City, you don't hear complaints about the IB program. People rave about it in Montgomery county too.

I don't see why it's bashed in FCPS unless the complaint is that IB programs in poor performing schools is a waste. But that still doesn't address whether it's good or bad. It just says IB programs in poor schools is not a good use of resources.[/quote]

W-L offers both AP and IB, so there are alternatives there lacking at the FCPS schools that are IB-only.

George Mason in FCC is too small to get much attention either way.

The dynamic in Montgomery is similar to in Fairfax - the top neighborhood schools are all AP (Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, and Walter Johnson), and IB is generally put in the low performing schools, apart from B-CC (similar to Robinson).  The only meaningful difference is that it has one IB magnet program at Richard Montgomery.   [/quote]

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