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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they want to leave IB at the current IB schools and the parents are ok with that, fine. Just don’t ask any of the rest of us to get redistricted into your schools to improve your scores or increase your enrollments. We don’t want IB and we won’t send our kids to these schools.  [/quote]

The parents at IB schools ar enot asked how they feel about the program, I think most of us would say we would prefer AP, I am guessing it would be at least 70% of the people who responded would say to tank IB. But the school board doesn't ask us. There is a reason why kids principal place out of IB schools, they prefer AP.

IB has some good points to it but it is not a good fit for a lot of students. We are not a European country were kids are tracked into schools based on college preparedness or votech positions. We don't have every student preparing to sit their exams as seniors. The math curriculum is in no way shape or form of interest to my kid who loves math. He owuld have to take Calculus online if he wants to take calculus, which is ridiculous. I have no objection to the reading a research elements of the program, but the math track is, in my opinion, problematic. I don't like the limited number of exams that the students can take. I don't like that my friends whose kids took IB exams have had to submit course syllabi and other supporting material to get credit at their colleges. And I don't think it prepares kids any better for college then an AP program. Lots of kids attend college out of AP schools and I don't think they struggle all that much. Both programs are rigourous even if it is in a different way.

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Agree. IB really works best for European kids taking a gap year.  You don’t even find out if you’ve received an IB diploma until after you’ve graduated and by then most American students have gone through the admissions process and already have plans.

Even so, at some schools it’s clear who is on the IB diploma track, and who isn’t, so if you’re an above-average kid who for whatever reason doesn’t want to do the full IB program you are better off at an AP school where you won’t be stigmatized for not being on the IB diploma track.

Really, we should only have one IB school in FCPS, reserved for kids who commit to doing the full program. Put it at Lewis and make it a lottery if there are more than 450 interested kids per year.[/quote]

There are only around 300 students per grade average who pursue the IB diploma each year across all of FCPS.  Many of them would switch to AP in a heartbeat.

FCPS could not fill a magnet high school with IB.  They would need to add one more program; maybe a language magnet would work.[/quote]

The dynamics would change if FCPS created a high school only for kids committed to pursuing the full IB diploma.  That high school would have greater appeal than the current model, and you'd see more kids pursuing the full IB diploma.

But a single IB school in FCPS, with a lottery if necessary, is the type of creative solution that FCPS pretends to want to consider, but rarely does.  They are more inclined to shovel kids into IB schools against their will and then shrug if there is a lot of attrition from those schools through kids pupil placing, moving, or going private.  [/quote]

So, this school would have to be TJ style--with no boundaries.

I suspect it would not have that many applicants.  But, maybe I am wrong.[/quote]

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