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If FCPS lavishes all this money on IB, and still can't produce an IB school that's one of the top five or six in the county, perhaps they ought to reconsider how wisely they are spending their money.  [/quote]

Please detail how much money FCPS "lavishes" on IB?

And please address why "producing an IB school that's one of the top five or six in the County" is an appropriate measure of the success (or failure) of a program curriculum?  Is the same metric applicable to spending money on athletics, ESL, SpecEd, AAP, languages etc. etc.?  FCPS has, for better or worse, created many different programs, often within the same school.  So, to insist that the rank of the school averages indicates the success of any particular program is myopic.

There are six thousand students in the IB program - all of whom have alternatives if they choose to pupil place - approximately 500 pupil place to AP.[/quote]

Not everyone is able to Pupil place.  It requires a family's ability to transport; splitting siblings and friends; etc. Almost 10% is a pretty high number to leave. I'd like to see a true survey of attitudes and which the people prefer.

I've searched for information/data on pupil placement.  There used to be a document that showed the numbers from school to school.  I can no longer find it.  Is it still published?[/quote]

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