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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I missed the last meeting a few days ago but quickly glanced through the slides. Quite a few were about IB programs. Is that what’s being considered for the school? I didn’t see other options mentioned.[/quote]

The parent advisory group has talked about IB vs AP a lot.  Short answer is IB is unlikely to happen.  Basically, DCPS doesn’t have the experience, will, or resources to do it right.  (The couple of existing IB high school programs within DCPS barely exist).  And it wouldn’t get accreditation for several years anyway.

I would expect the standard AP programming.

And that’s it.  Nothing else has happened to report.

And big caveat:  It sounds like DCPS has no plans to provide extra budget in the early years to open it with the scale of programming that it will presumably eventually reach.  Instead, it will have the budget of a 200 student high school.  How do they offer a range of foreign languages, electives, and accelerated math when they only have the teaching staff for a 200 hundred student budget with 40 kids in each class?  Doesn’t sound like they have any plan for that.

So basically the only incentives offered for students to choose it the first couple of years are:
— it will be good for JR students since it will ease crowding there.
— your student will get to write about new-school chaos in their college application.

The first few classes are screwed.[/quote]

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