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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IB is fine and where and why fcps places the program is also fine.

Parents who don’t want it are free to pupil place their kids at AP schools and drive them to school everyday.[/quote]

Except AP schools are more likely to be closed to transfers than IB schools, so it could be a long drive to an AP school that a lot of families wouldn't be able to manage in any event.

So instead you have more people avoiding IB schools entirely, one reason why there's such a big difference between West Springfield, with compact boundaries and 2500 kids, and Lewis, with probably a larger catchment area but only 1700 kids.  [/quote]

Just to note for everyone, if you look at the Lewis boundaries it may look big, but there is a huge no residence zone made up of the old Ft. Belvoir Proving Ground (now NGA), the Fullerton industrial center, and an area east of 95 (the car dealerships). This leaves the Saratoga area somewhat isolated. That being said, in days gone by Lee/Lewis had more than 2000 students. Of course that was before the School Board shrank the boundaries by taking many single family homes and moving them to West Springfield and South County.

And AP should be put back in at Lewis. Anyone saying differently is in denial of the harsh reality that IB has failed there.[/quote]

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