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[quote=Anonymous]In general, I think FCPS gets hooked on things they think will make some parents happy and then way overdoes it.  AAP and IB are the two examples that immediately come to mind.

We surely want to find challenges for the most gifted students.  But AAP has become the crack of FCPS - it's viewed as the vehicle of choice for parents of slightly above-average kids to get them out of classrooms with kids who are struggling to learn English or master basic skills.  But it's backfired because now the parents of every other student in the wealthy areas that don't have large ESOL/FARMS populations insist that their kids be placed in AAP, and the GenEd parents in those areas who didn't think to get their kid into AAP or couldn't find a way to pull it off are seriously pissed.

IB is similar.  It was introduced at one high school decades ago with the stated purpose of stemming white flight.  It didn't do that, but it sounds "trendy" and "prestigious," so FCPS kept sticking it in school after school, even though the demand for the program is limited.  So now we're stuck with a under-utilized program that costs more than AP at nearly 1/3 of the county's high schools.

Both programs are treated like sacred cows in FCPS, so they likely won't get cut.  Instead, Gatehouse will blame the BOS and the taxpayers for not sending FCPS enough money, and our kids will end up in classrooms with more students.   
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