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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regardless of the school’s name, an FCPS high school with an IB program that produces only four IB diploma recipients in a graduating class needs to pull the plug on IB.  It’s nuts they think they are honoring John Lewis by associating his name with such poor achievement.[/quote]

Achievement is not measured by IB diplomas alone.

And the faux “concern” for Lewis is pretty transparent.[/quote]

C’mon.  You know a high school IB program at a school with 400 or so seniors and only 4 IB diploma graduates sucks big time. [/quote]

How many IB classes are being taken? How many juniors and seniors take 1, 2, 3, 4 or more IB classes during high school? Looking at IB diplomas awarded is only one metric and is not the best metric to use. Should FCPS high schools no longer offer AP classes if only have single-digit graduates with the Capstone?[/quote]

One percent of graduates earning the IB diploma shows terrible results at the top end, which likely are reflected in the other lower level metrics that you mentioned. And AP is better for a la carte courses if that is the way they are going to be taken. AP is also less expensive. FCPS is not obligated to maintain two different sets of advanced courses. Simplify everything in the county by making all schools AP.

I would support a School Board candidate that pledged to take a serious look at IB. Unfortunately there are a few members who just won't give IB up.[/quote]

The only people who will try to explain this poor showing away as anything less than grim are (1) die-hard IB supporters; (2) West Springfield parents who want to suggest Lewis is doing great to squelch any redistricting talk; and (3) Lewis-zoned parents who want to suggest IB is succeeding at Lewis so they can keep pupil-placing their kids to AP schools.

Otherwise it’s a clear distress sign. [/quote]

What a crock.

The Lewis zoned parents on this thread keep defending the abysmal desults of only 4 students graduating with an IB diploma.  Who knows why.  Perhaps it is because they want to keep that IB loophole so they can transfer out of Lewis.

[b]No WSHS parent cares whether or not Lewis is IB.  It does not affect their school one iota. [/b]What they have commented on is that IB does not make any sense at neigbboring Lewis because the program sucks and because it has zero appeal or usefulness to military families.

Keep your IB if you are so attached to it.

If my kid was zoned for an IB school with such poor results as Lewis IB program, I would fight like hell to either get rid of the program, or transfer my kkd to an actual AP school, including a Catholic high school if all else fails.

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The existence and fate of Lewis is [i]very much[/i] intertwined with WSHS. At one point, though it was an early Gatehouse blueprint, there were talks of Lee getting shut down as a 'normal' high school after the ESOL young adult program was placed there. If any plans to dissolve Lewis ever come to light again, WSHS could be the first on the hook for receiving students from some of the poorest ES in the county like Lynbrook and Crestwood which would surely affect WSHS's outcomes.[/quote]

Yeah...  that is not happening.[/quote]

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