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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lastly, if the excluded kids were Wakefield kids instead of Yorktown kids, would you feel differently?

We should not, in my view, be excluding either sets if children in my view under these circumstances.  [/quote]

The only guarantee for IB is to live in the WL zone, and that’s always been unfair to everyone. At least they are using the unfair system smartly to address overcrowding.

And the WHS PUs that were moved have already been announced, and were effective this past schoolyear and they were the same exact PUs that were recently moved out. I am unaware of any additional moves. There aren’t any potential moves listed on the APS Engage site. Do you have a link to other information or are you misinformed? [/quote]

1). Since inception of the IB program, [b]it is my understanding that APS has never turned away a student.  [/b]I don’t know how long it has been one existence but say ten or fifteen years.   Accordingly, changing a practice after a decade would be a significant departure from a decades+ worth of experience.  APS’ practice for a decade is more significant to families than written policies it does not actually follow (as is true for every organization).

2).   They opened neighborhood transfers to W&L but only from Wakefield, and, if you are at W&L, you can do IB.  A previous poster said that the only kids on the IB WL now are YHS—which is what sparked my post (and some outrage).  If the IB program was only guaranteed to W&L and Yorktown kids—but not Wakefield kids—there would be outrage, rightly.   It is not a fair lottery system if 1/3 of the county is the only portion competing for limited spots.  [/quote]

That’s not true. They haven’t always been able to accommodate the full waitlist. My guess is they are starting with WHS kids and will work their way down the waitlist for YHS, again because of crowding. It’s not unreasonable and not any more unfair than any other thing about having IB at just the one school and making everyone else lottery in. [/quote]

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