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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is very enlightening.  I posted earlier about my experience at IB in Florida.  By the tone of the discussion in this thread, I probably wouldn't even be allowed to breath on the glass of the school.  We are childless at the moment.  I can't imagine how insufferable growing up here must be.  [/quote]

Florida poster. I don't have time to shift through so many pages again to read the details of your school, but I believe you posted several days ago about a magnet experience at an IB school and maybe even a test in school. The eastern portion of the county is functioning in the opposite way of a magnet. It is close to DC, yet it is in decline because the neighborhoods are getting older. Fairfax has put IB in these schools for the past 15-20 years hoping it would revitalize the areas and it has done the opposite. There are just too many IB schools right there. TJ, a test in stem magnet school, is also nearby and sucks a lot of the brightest kids too. The neighborhoods are declining further and people are getting tired of paying additional taxes for additional teachers as well as the IB program. It is a high immigrant and FARM area. Class sizes for middle and high school were increased again last year for everyone about the 3rd time in 10 years. It is the only area of the county with IB schools right next to each other and people are frustrated that the school board cannot admit they made a mistake and fix this area. This is why there is so much frustration about IB. It is a more expensive program, kids aren't using it to the same level as AP, it is not serving the residents well there, and it is a factor in causing class sizes to rise. Their lack of action is prompting people without kids to fight against tax increases because they see the school board as ineffective so the schools are getting low on funding. You don't know all this because you don't live up here. I will not judge your school not knowing enough about it if you will let us handle this local decision. This question seems to come up every month for the past 3 years here and still the school board does nothing.[/quote]

to Florida poster - it does sometimes appear "insufferable", but the passion and commitment of many parents to education is the fundamental strength of the public schools here.  We tolerate and manage to generally remain civil. [/quote]

I am sure it is nearly the same everywhere these days.  I do applaud the commitment of parents here.  I can tell you this - despite there being a rank ordering at the end of high school, it has generally not meant much of anything.  Nearly everybody from the top to the bottom has done well from my IB class.  Even the outliers eventually turned themselves around.  My lack of super trying in high school had no impact on my education at the university level.  I have consistently smoked kids that did all their homework; to each their own.  If I had to do it all over again, I would organize a few more causeway keg parties.  :D   
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