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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It isn't even even in different high schools in FCPS. My sophomore at Langley has a friend who switched from another FCPS school and was getting all 100's and now is horrified to be struggling at Langley with B and C's. And yet I'm sure the high school the kid is at previously would do better in college admissions.[/quote]

Sounds like your kid and their friend are in general ed classes. Obviously general ed at Langley is at a higher level than general ed at Mt. Vernon. But then again those other general ed kids aren't applying to UVA so I wouldn't worry about them.

However, teachers who teach AP/IB use prior year AP/IB format questions on their classroom tests. So the rigor across AP/IB schools is essentially standardized to that difficulty.[/quote]

If you think IB rigor at Mount Vernon is similar to AP rigor at Langley, you’re delusional. 
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Yes, it's well known that IB is far more challenging than any AP course.[/quote]

Nice try, but very wrong.  [b]Gen Ed at Langley is more challenging than IB at Mount Vernon. [/b][/quote]

Do you have a student at Langley in Gen Ed classes and a student at Mount Vernon in IB classes?  My guess is the answer is NO.

I am a parent of student who graduated from Mount Vernon this past spring.  I also have a child who graduated two years ago from one of the private schools in the DMV.  The private high school has as high or even higher SES population as the students at Langley High School.  The private school sends 99% of its graduates to four year colleges, so their Gen Ed classes are all college prep.  My private school kid's Gen Ed classes were very similar to the Honors courses at Mount Vernon.  My private school DC also took a couple of AP courses.  Mount Vernon offers AP Govt and AP Stats.  Both of my children were taking AP Govt at the exact same time.  They were using the exact same textbook.  They had very comparable homework assignments.  You know what was different?  My Mount Vernon student had fewer students in his class than my private high school kid did.  At the end of the year, they took the exact same AP exam.

The big difference inside an Honors class or an IB at Mount Vernon is the size (teacher/student ratio) - especially as you get into the IB classes in 11th and 12th grade.  Mount Vernon has 11 students per teacher.  Langley has 16 students per teacher.  My DC had 6 (six) students in his IB math class last year.  How many students are in AP Calculus at Langley?  There are extremely bright, motivated, high achieving students at Mount Vernon HS.  They are being challenged in the classroom.  There just aren't huge numbers of them.  That's the difference.[/quote]

DP.  That's what I thought too.  But I know a couple kids who recently graduated from Lewis and they were [i]not[/i] prepared for college, as in, returning home during their freshman year or choosing community college or taking a gap year that turned into another and so on.  [/quote]

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