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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the OP,  I"d try to move into the area in/near Reston that may go to the new western HS. [b]You can then avoid SLHS and IB[/b], plus if you're savvy go to Carson or Robinson for MS? I'm not clear on the MSs and how best to be in Reston (if that's where you need to move for work) but avoid Hughes. My neighbor taught there until last year and said she definitely would not want her own kids to go there, FWIW. [/quote]

Why would anyone want to avoid IB at South Lakes? Clearly you're not an IB parent there.[/quote]

1. AP is much more flexible in choices of courses to take.
2. Taking IB a la carte was never the intention of IB.
3. Some math students much prefer the opportunities in AP over IB.

And:  for the leadership--Reid has openly admitted at a School Board meeting that IB is more expensive.
Fewer people prefer it--why are we doing this.  This is not equitable programming.[/quote]

I find it puzzling that in points 1) and 2) you accuse IB both of not being flexible enough and of being used in a manner that you judge as being too flexible. And 3), many students are not "math" students. 
DC earned their IBDP, was admitted EA at UVA, and had a really good college experience, for which -yes- they were thoroughly prepared.

I will never understand why non-IB parents can't just be happy that their children get to do AP. The vitriol against IB by people on this board is just puzzling. And I never hear IB parents give a second thought to AP. Like, nobody cares. Be happy with your lot and carry on![/quote]

SLHS is our base school and I would strongly prefer AP to IB. I shouldn’t have to pupil place and provide transportation for a program that is barely utilized. The IBDP rate is depressingly low. The IB was not meant to be a pick and choose, that is what the AP program does. IB is supposed to be about earning the diploma and all that goes into earning the diploma. SLHS doesn’t have even 10% of the kids completing the diploma. Most kids take 1 or 2 classes and then have to wait until senior year to take the exam. If they are taking the exams the year they take the IB class, then they are not following the program.

IB should be a opt in program at one or two schools so that the kids wanting to complete the IB Diploma can be at school together, encouraging each other. That is how LCPS and APS use IB. Instead it is foisted on schools where most of the students don’t have any interest in the actual program, treat it like AP, and kids who want to take AP are screwed because that is what is offered at their base school.

The fact that the County dropped IB at the schools where the parents are not involved enough to fight it says a lot. Robinson has IB and AP options so there is less concern at Robinson because kids can ignore IB and do AP, but SLHS doesn’t have that option. [/quote]

Then you should petition to have AP added at SLHS along with IB. You want to have your choice (which you do have, it only entails a longer bus ride), but are unwilling to let IB families have theirs. I assume you were aware that the only high school in Reston is IB when you chose to live here? I was, that’s why my family moved here.[/quote]

People have been petitioning this for years and it hasn't changed. And it wasn't IB when we moved here, we were at Oakton. We are opting in to the new school for the AP. Otherwise, we were looking at pupil placing, like over a hundred of families have annually. IB should be an opt in program and not forced on people. The school board seems to be fine with people pupil placing out and lousy completion numbers for the program. I have no clue why. I suspect SLHS scores would be higher if the 100-200 kids, depending on the year, didn't pupil place out for AP.[/quote]

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