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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what's so undesirable about IB?[/quote]

It opens the door to the world. For many, that’s undesirable.[/quote]

IB is heavy on the marketing hype - buzzwords like turning kids into "lifelong learners" and "global citizens."

Then kids sign up (or get pushed into IB by their parents) and find it has a lot of distribution requirements, is writing-heavy, is Euro-centric, has a lot of assignments that feel like busywork, penalizes you if you bail on the IB diploma track, and doesn't even reward you with an IB diploma until after you've graduated from high school.  Meanwhile the AP kids have more flexibility in designing their schedules, have more tangible evidence of their accomplishments because they take AP exams earlier, aren't forced into a binary model (diploma/non-diploma tracks), have more STEM options, and do at least as well when it comes to college admissions and performance.

In Robinson's case, a nearby AP school - Lake Braddock - houses the middle school AAP program, so the AAP kids from the Robinson pyramid have multiple incentives to pupil place in order to stay at Lake Braddock for high school.  [/quote]

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