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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole AP/IB debate is getting quite stale.  Have your child take the most challenging courses they desire at the high school that is offered to them. If that is AP, fine. If that is IB, fine. If it is honors, fine. If it is (gasp) regular courses, fine.  The endless need of people on this forum to justify why one is better than the other seems to be more of a pride issue than anything else.  I took more AP courses than I can remember when I was in high school.  Once you get to college, guess what?  Nobody cares whether you took AP, IB, honors, homeschool, whatever.  All they care is how you perform once in you're in college.  And, if you go to decent college, no amount of AP or IB is going to fully prepare you - you're going to be challenged even further beyond those high school courses. [/quote]

I think the issue is the IB costs more than AP for the county to implement, so if there is no need for it, why not put the money towards something else?[/quote]

That's essentially what FCPS is doing by only having AP at the newer schools.  But they are too proud to admit that IB has not achieved the intended goal of retaining and attracting students to most of the schools where it was introduced, with one or two possible exceptions.  Meanwhile they keep IB at multiple schools where less than 10% of the seniors bother to get IB diplomas. [/quote]

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