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[quote=Anonymous]It's fine to have some specialized offerings like Russian made available online.  However, offering in-person instruction in a foreign language at just a few schools, whether it's Russian, Vietnamese, or Korean, will prove a significant impediment to any effort to adjust boundaries.  It's very obvious, as evidenced by the Langley parents posting on this thread,  that some parents will latch onto such issues to argue that their boundaries and course offerings can't be altered.  On the other hand, if the language offerings are more consistent across schools, and some languages are only offered online, that argument has less weight.

The same issue arises with respect to AP and IB.  There are far more AP schools than IB schools, and it would be much easier to return 8 high schools to AP than convert 17 to IB.  Absent uniformity in this area as well, people will not accept being moved from AP schools to IB schools (and, in some cases, vice versa).  When students from AP schools were moved into IB South Lakes in 2008, FCPS promised families from Oakton, Westfield, and Madison that it would add plenty of AP courses to South Lakes. That did not happen, and people won't fall for that line again.

If FCPS doesn't anticipate and address these issues, Board members like McDaniel, Frisch, and Anderson are wasting everyone's time and attention by asserting that a county-wide boundary review is needed and/or forthcoming.  [/quote]

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