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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IB is offered in every county around us, it is something that some people really like. The difference is the counties around us offer IB as an opt-in program but they offer AP at the schools with IB. Kids apply to participate in the IB diploma program, not just take a few IB classes. The rest of the school takes AP.

FCPS runs the program differently and could care less about the diploma or the lack of people taking HL classes. They just bumped IBSL classes to a 1.0 weight, like the HL classes. There was a reason SL classes were a .5 bump.

I was just talking to a friend who has a kid at SLHS and another who will be going to the new HS. They are thrilled to be getting away from IB. Several of their friends warned them about keeping the syllabus from any IB class and completed class work because their kids needed that to get credit for the IB exams that they took. It took a lot of leg work on the kids part at college.

FCPS can’t even give the correct advice to 8th graders heading to SLHS, many of the people I know were told that their kid didnt need to worry about a foreign language in 8th grade only to find out that they needed the language to earn the diploma. That is how little the counselors know about the program or care about the program. [/quote]

Doesn't that fall on the counselors at South Lakes to inform them and Gatehouse.  Seriously, what do the people at Gatehouse do?  Who is in charge of IB at Gatehouse?
It seems like keeping counselors informed would be a key element of the job.[/quote]

I don't think this is a South Lakes issue.  It's more of an issue for counselors at Carson, in particular, not telling South Lakes-bound kids which courses they should take as 8th graders if they might be interested in an IB diploma in HS.  [/quote]

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