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> Neen Wrote:
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> > > Neen Wrote:
> > > South Lakes is stuck with IB
> > > > and will continue to be a poor performing
> > > school
> > > > because high performing kids don't want to
> go
> > > to
> > > > an IB school.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > So there are no high performing kids at
> > Robinson,
> > > Stuart, Marshall, Mt. Vernon, South Lakes,
> > Edison,
> > > Lee or Annandale? What a rude, idiotic
> > statement
> > > you have made. Many neighborhoods are part
> of
> > IB
> > > school districts, and there are many high
> > > performing kids in them. Here is just one
> > > example:
> > >
> >
>
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?ar
>
> >
> > > ticle=316688&paper=61&cat=105
> > >
> > > Notice that he has time to do sports and
> other
> > > activities despite being part of the IB
> diploma
> > > program; I say that because early on some
> > posters
> > > feared the IB diploma wouldn't work for
> their
> > > children who are talented athletes...clearly,
> > as
> > > this article illustrates, it can work for
> them.
> >
> > When those schools are as good as Langley,
> > Madison, McLean, and Oakton, get back to us.
> OK?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > (One example doesn't quite cut it.)
>
> So, you are maintaining that there are no high
> performing students in any of those schools? That
> those neighborhoods have no high performing
> students?
>
> At least I cite an example to show that students
> can be high performing, gifted athletes, handle
> the IB diploma, and get into a quality college.
>
> I did one simple google search based on your claim
> that high performing students won't attend IB
> schools.
>
> You continue to make broad assertions like, "high
> performing students don't want to go to an IB
> school" and have no examples to cite concerning
> Robinson, Stuart, Lee, Edison, Annandale, Mt.
> Vernon, Marshall.
>
> Your smugness has gotten in the way of logic here.
> Clearly there are many high performing students
> residing in those neighborhoods, and attending
> their neighborhood high school. While the
> redistricting was handled very poorly by the
> school board, and folks are upset that they won't
> be attending the school they thought they would,
> that doesn't mean every family, every student, in
> those IB school neighborhoods aren't "high
> performing." You made that claim, you are the one
> who needs to back it up.
>
> Please provide proof that kids in those
> neighborhoods who are high performing aren't
> attending the IB schools. Get back to us, Ok?
Yes, several of those schools have at least 20 students who excel in the IB program. The other high performing students in those neighborhoods have avoided those schools.
You'll have to pardon those of us who find the number of high performing students in IB schools well short of impressive.