Leescorner is great. Most of my kids friends come from many different ethnic backgrounds so your kids will fit in fine. Teachers and staff are great. They have local Level IV AAP program.

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Anonymous wrote:The Fox Mill kids are kind of screwed at Carson. I have heard from many parents that the Counselor’s at Carson forget that there are kids that go to South Lakes and don’t know what the kids might need for the IB Diploma. This is normally an issue with taking a language in MS to meet the 5 year language requirement for the IB diploma. I had a friend tell me that she just learned about this and that the Counselor never said anything when selecting classes and had to call over to South Lakes to find out that there is a requirement for a 5th year of high school language.

Fox Mill and a small number of kids from Floris are the only kids that go to SLHS. It sucks for the kids.

I’m sorry but this is why you absolutely do not rely on counselors only to chart your kid’s academic path. Parents need to step up and determine what the IB requirements are themselves if their child is going to SLHS. Parents should know and suggest courses to their child. Just like I looked up my kid’s own high school to see what languages they offer up to level 4 or 5. That determined what we chose in middle.

No. That is unreasonable to expect from some parents. I say that as someone who did pay close attention to college requirements for my kids. But, not every parent understands this--and IB is especially difficult to process. This is the counselor's job. The counselors at South Lakes should ensure that Carson counselors understand the requirements. That is their job.

This is one reason we should get rid of IB. If the IB coordinator at South Lakes cannot ensure this, then maybe IB is not all it is cracked up to be.

No, it’s actually not. Lol. Counselors at SLHS are not required to tell counselors at Carson what to do.

The primary responsibility of a child’s education belongs to the parent. Parents need to know what IB is and the language requirement. If the child didn’t take a language in middle school, that is on the parent. To blame a counselor for not advising the child to take a course is so like the entitled parents in FCPS.

Better yet, get rid of IB. It's a waste of time and money, and as these posts illustrate, you can end up in situations where it's an after-thought for families until their kids are in 10th grade. Then they find out that either (1) their kid isn't positioned for an IB diploma or (2) unless their kids jumps through a lot of hoops, their kids are going to be lumped in the "lesser than" category at their schools for not pursuing an IB diploma.

Why do you think students will get lumped into the lesser than category? Where is IB diploma vs certificate being reported that would show up on college apps?

It's been a long time since I was in IB, but the difference between the two was almost nonexistent. It felt like a big difference at the time, but in reality, students could sit for more tests more than the requirements for the certificate required. So a certificate student could theoretically get the same college credit that we did. And then, IB program participation and weighted grades were the only things that would appear on a transcript. So there was no "lesser than" issue back then.

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Anonymous wrote:My take-away is that if you're looking in this general area you really want an elementary school that feeds into a middle school where most of the kids will be going to either Chantilly or Oakton. Unless it's Navy, where a lot of the parents seem to be bat-sh*t crazy (see other thread).

Which means you should look at schools that feed into Franklin MS!

When we were house hunting, we saw a lot of listings that said "Franklin or Carson MS" <-- do those neighborhoods have a choice?

Carson is the AAP center, so AAP students have a choice between the two schools, but it's ludicrous to send AAP students there when Franklin has an exceptional AAP program itself. I sent children through both AAP programs, and I found Franklin's program to be superior to Carson’s.

I find it bizarre that a house listing would assume that a homebuyer's hypothetical children would be AAP!

I've seen more than one in the Navy ES boundary advertising it's apparently close to a TJ bustop.. talk about presumptuous!

Several years ago, we had a neighbor who advertised his house. One of the comments in the description indicated that his child attended a very prestigious college. Like it was catching, or something.

Hahaha!!

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Anonymous wrote:My take-away is that if you're looking in this general area you really want an elementary school that feeds into a middle school where most of the kids will be going to either Chantilly or Oakton. Unless it's Navy, where a lot of the parents seem to be bat-sh*t crazy (see other thread).

Which means you should look at schools that feed into Franklin MS!

When we were house hunting, we saw a lot of listings that said "Franklin or Carson MS" <-- do those neighborhoods have a choice?

Carson is the AAP center, so AAP students have a choice between the two schools, but it's ludicrous to send AAP students there when Franklin has an exceptional AAP program itself. I sent children through both AAP programs, and I found Franklin's program to be superior to Carson’s.

I find it bizarre that a house listing would assume that a homebuyer's hypothetical children would be AAP!

I've seen more than one in the Navy ES boundary advertising it's apparently close to a TJ bustop.. talk about presumptuous!

Several years ago, we had a neighbor who advertised his house. One of the comments in the description indicated that his child attended a very prestigious college. Like it was catching, or something.

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Anonymous wrote:My take-away is that if you're looking in this general area you really want an elementary school that feeds into a middle school where most of the kids will be going to either Chantilly or Oakton. Unless it's Navy, where a lot of the parents seem to be bat-sh*t crazy (see other thread).

Which means you should look at schools that feed into Franklin MS!

When we were house hunting, we saw a lot of listings that said "Franklin or Carson MS" <-- do those neighborhoods have a choice?

Carson is the AAP center, so AAP students have a choice between the two schools, but it's ludicrous to send AAP students there when Franklin has an exceptional AAP program itself. I sent children through both AAP programs, and I found Franklin's program to be superior to Carson’s.

I find it bizarre that a house listing would assume that a homebuyer's hypothetical children would be AAP!

I've seen more than one in the Navy ES boundary advertising it's apparently close to a TJ bustop.. talk about presumptuous!

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Anonymous wrote:My take-away is that if you're looking in this general area you really want an elementary school that feeds into a middle school where most of the kids will be going to either Chantilly or Oakton. Unless it's Navy, where a lot of the parents seem to be bat-sh*t crazy (see other thread).

Which means you should look at schools that feed into Franklin MS!

When we were house hunting, we saw a lot of listings that said "Franklin or Carson MS" <-- do those neighborhoods have a choice?

Carson is the AAP center, so AAP students have a choice between the two schools, but it's ludicrous to send AAP students there when Franklin has an exceptional AAP program itself. I sent children through both AAP programs, and I found Franklin's program to be superior to Carson’s.

I find it bizarre that a house listing would assume that a homebuyer's hypothetical children would be AAP!

Some home buyers have kids already in AAP. I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:My take-away is that if you're looking in this general area you really want an elementary school that feeds into a middle school where most of the kids will be going to either Chantilly or Oakton. Unless it's Navy, where a lot of the parents seem to be bat-sh*t crazy (see other thread).

Which means you should look at schools that feed into Franklin MS!

When we were house hunting, we saw a lot of listings that said "Franklin or Carson MS" <-- do those neighborhoods have a choice?

Carson is the AAP center, so AAP students have a choice between the two schools, but it's ludicrous to send AAP students there when Franklin has an exceptional AAP program itself. I sent children through both AAP programs, and I found Franklin's program to be superior to Carson’s.

I find it bizarre that a house listing would assume that a homebuyer's hypothetical children would be AAP!