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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why locking into IB for five more years at eight high schools is a bad idea, but FCPS is too sclerotic to look at what makes sense. They make a big deal about the need for a fresh boundary review, but then they turn around and perpetuate lackluster IB programs. [/quote]

Some families see having IB as some type of special programming that they have to defend, never mind that their kids are not completing the diploma. We are at SLHS and the number of parents who approach IB classes as if they are similar to AP classes is high. They don't understand that the SL classes do not get college credit and then complain when their kids go to college that their kid didn't get college credits for their classes. They assume that IB is so different then AP that their kids will be better prepared for college then a kid in AP, ignoring the thousands of kids with AP classes who go to college and do just fine. It is like IB is a badge of honor.

And very few of their kids go for the diploma because it isn't flexible enough and they don't want to take the extra classes.

If FCPS is going to force schools to have IB, they should have to have a full slate of AP classes at those kids so kids have a choice. Without that, the kids who want AP will keep leaving the schools. I suspect that the only reason Robinson doesn't see more kids placing out is because they have AP and IB. The SLHS departures would look worse if they didn't have kids from Herndon placing into SLHS.

I suspect that the Western HS will lead to more pupil placing from SLHS and HHS to the new Western HS as there will be a closer by AP program that offers a different learning path that kids can pupil place for.[/quote]

My kids got the IB diploma, but who cares? When in anyone's life does a high school diploma matter? It's the emphasis on writing that sets them up for success. [/quote]

We care because IB is a waste of taxpayer money that could be sprnt more effectively on AP.

We also care because the low performing schools are flooded with IB programs, which translates into almost all of the hugher performing kids transferring out to get to an AP school, which lowers the achievement and ranking of IB schools turning them into pariah schools, while overcrowding the AP schools, making them targets for rezoning, not because they are overcrowded with in boundary kids but because the IB to AP transfers are pushing the AP schools over capacity and making the IB schools under capacity.[/quote]

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