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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]f tune many of the anti-IB posters on here would be singing if, say, 20 years ago, FCPS had decided to put IB in the "better" FCPS schools and left AP in the "lesser" FCPS schools.  Oh, I'm sure you'll tell us that your opinion would be unchanged based on your objective, scientific analysis of college admissions, but somehow, I sort of doubt it.[quote]

You don't have to speculate.  Here's a timeline for IB in FCPS:

Mount Vernon - 1994
Stuart - 1994
Marshall - 1997
Edison -1998
Robinson - 1998
South Lakes - 1999
Woodson - 1999 [proposed for IB: parents rejected]
Westfield - 2000 [new school; opened as AP] 
Annandale - 2001
Lee - 2001
South County - 2012 [new school; opened as AP]

It's difficult to look at this and not conclude that FCPS went through a period of infatuation with IB, but that this period has come and gone.   No other schools are clamoring for IB (some Falls Church parents asked whether FCHS could get both AP and IB, but primarily as a way to limit pupil placements out of the school), and there seems to be more than enough "IB capacity" in the system. [/quote]

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