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So what this tells me is that FCPS misunderstood how to stem "white flight." It's not an argument about IB vs. AP, but rather, how do you keep the kids who prop up the test score at their zoned school, or even encourage higher-scoring kids to attend an OOB school? Answer: by giving them a highly selective program. It doesn't matter if it's AP or IB. It just matters that it's rigorous and acceptance is made difficult.

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And, this is what happened.  It didn't attract enough people at South Lakes, so the PTA (led by the IB parents with the assistance of Stu Gibson) led a boundary change initiative.  If anyone recalls, it was South Lakes PTA which objected to the original proposal because it didn't include affluent kids.

These parents are the ones who claim to be so understanding and liberal--and, yet, their kids are pretty much segregated within the school.  Just like the AAP programs. The AAP programs were expanded so that more AA kids would get in--but, the result was that the program expanded so much that it is no longer what it was originally.  And,  the proportion of AA and Hispanic kids is no higher.[/quote]

Yeah, I'm not familiar with any AP school in FCPS that had to be shored up the way that FCPS expanded the South Lakes boundaries to revive that struggling school and its IB program. [/quote]

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