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This is important to remember: transferring into IB (supposedly) requires you to take full IB. No picky-choosey like kids zoned for WL.  This is a policy, IMO, APS needs to change.[/quote]

NP whose Yorktown-zoned child wants to apply for IB next year.  How would you change it?  Either let the YT/Wakefield kids stay even if they don't do full IB, or make it so W-L kids can't dabble in IB, they either do it or not?[/quote]

Why don’t they have IB at YHS?

All the weird program quirks in APS were one reason we moved to Fairfax.  It always felt like there was a small group in power deciding behind the scenes how to tip the scales in favor of one school or program or another. [/quote]

It’s nothing unusual. Neighboring school districts have various programs (and qualifications for entry) at the different high schools. Including FCPS. [/quote]

But it is unusual. FCPS has AP schools and IB schools.  They don’t stack the deck to favor one neighborhood HS and encourage a brain drain from one to another (putting aside TJ).  Anyway we found it weird.  Maybe you don’t or are just defensive about it. [/quote]

MCPS has schools like B-CC HS that offer both a full IB and AP curriculums to its neighborhood zoned students. It’s closed to transfers however. The IB magnet program at Richard Montgomery is the only MCPS IB program open to students from other zoned schools, with an admissions process similar to Montgomery Blair, Poolesville, TJ (FCPS), etc. If you’re accepted, you’re among the smartest and most motivated in all of MCPS. [/quote]

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