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[quote=Anonymous]To 00:30s questions:
OP said FCPS and I replied for Fairfax County Public Schools.
Im not naming the school because teachers change.
I went to a PTA meeting where they proudly presented facts on how many students passed IB exams. I knew my child’s language class was weak, but I found out in the history of IB at the school no one had passed that language. My kid was set up for failure.
I saw the list of books the PTA paid for every child to have in another FCPS. My kids were given copies of the books they read in English, but the reading list was short throughout HS. Compared to what? Not just local schools in richer areas but to my own experience in a non-local underfunded public city HS. How can you find this stuff out? Ask for the reading lists. I wish I knew to do this in advance. We wound up buying math and science textbooks so our kids had them. When we asked one of our kids how other students were managing, they said kids were taking pictures on their phones of the text pages day by day in class, when they Could borrow them from the teacher during class time only. My kids did feel like they were encouraged to bring critical analysis to their reading and discussion in English. I’ve wondered many times if we should have figured out a way to do private school, though my kids felt like having the diversity in the public school balanced the experience of inadequate resources. Again, this isn’t about the IB curriculum, it’s about the delivery.[/quote]

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