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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought schools send a profile and colleges only worry about students taking the most challenging programming available at their school ( not the county). So a McLean student is judged on different standards than a student at Justice, correct? My understanding is that there is a profile per individual high school. So would capping it really disadvantage anyone? [/quote]

You're asking admissions folks to spend a lot of time they may not have to delve into individual school profiles.  And even if they do, they could simply conclude one school is now offering a less rigorous education than another, or than it used to, and assess students' applications accordingly.

Expecting Raven Jones to play nanny and limit the number of AP courses a student can take is silly.  Again, if this is truly a burning issue, let FCPS adopt a county-wide policy and enforce it consistently.  
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You're funny! FCPS can't do anything right.  Their track record with parents and kids speaks for itself, so expecting them to roll out something standardized and sensible is genuinely laughable.

Ms. Jones is the one making the case that AP overload and high schooler mental health issues are "causally" linked (her word). So it's entirely within her power to address this for McLean students specifically, without needing to take it district-wide. She is absolutely capable of doing exactly that.  And admissions officers do review the school profile updates that each high school submits. Without reading those, they'd have no way of understanding the applicant pool from that school. That makes this a far more manageable, targeted fix -- versus an FCPS-wide initiative that they would inevitably bungle.[/quote]

So one poster claims McLean parents are particularly litigious and the next suggests the principal unilaterally impose restrictions on the number of AP courses McLean High kids can take compared to students at other high schools in FCPS?

These observations aren’t easily reconciled.  [/quote]

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