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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]W-L is generally viewed as more diverse and academically focused than Yorktown.  Yorktown is white, preppy, and academically rather average. [/quote]

Spoken like a true WL-er.  I agree WL is not just viewed as, but IS much more diverse than Yorktown. I disagree that it is "more" academically focused.  Yorktown is very white and very wealthy, seems to have more kids with greater sense of "entitlement," but not sub-par to WL academically.  WL just has the IB program and therefore students have access to more academic options.[/quote]

IB is, on the whole, more academically rigorous than AP or DE (there are studies showing IB diplomates are more successful in college), and kids not zoned for W-L have to meet cretain standards to transfer in. So W-L is siphoning off some of the other schools' higher-achieving students[/quote]

It’s good for IB but odd how APS decided a brain drain to W-L from Yorktown and Wakefield was a good idea.  If they were trying to remedy economic gaps it should be Wakefield that alone gets both programs. [/quote]

IB had been discussed at W-L on and off for close to 30 years and with years of planning and debate that resulted in a specialized IB program for interested students, while preserving the APS course of study that includes AP classes, electives, and core classes, for the non diploma candidates. It wasn’t the APS curriculum admin or staff that determined W-L should have IB. The school itself took the initiative and created its own bespoke program. Following that success, APS supported sending students  to TJHSST, and encouraged the development of the unique programs at Wakefield and Yorktown. [/quote]

Someone in APS presumably signed off on letting YHS and WHS kids transfer to W-L.  With W-L offering both AP and IB, it results in W-L having a more robust curriculum and a brain drain from other schools. YHS in particular is weak now for a school with its demographics, while W-L seems perpetually overcrowded. [/quote]

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