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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you freaking serious it was never a goal to get 400 incoming freshmen into the IB program per year.  If that was the case...then an application component would've been priority.  If you are truly knowledgeable about IB, then you would know the high-school component does not kick into gear until 11th grade.  So for someone to think that incoming freshmen are a lost cause due to IB offerings are just clueless.  You are aware that Eastern is a comprehensive high school and there's only two high school (Banneker Academic High School) that offer IB and both are predominantly AA populated.[/quote]

The only way you'd have more than a token number of IB diploma candidates at a school like Eastern would be to have strong PYP and MYP programs at the ES and MS level, and then make sure students were taking the right pre-IB courses in 9th and 10th grade.

In essence, this program is fairly insigniciant at a school like Eastern.  It just becomes away to suggest the school is better because it's an "IB world school," but only a handful of students will get IB diplomas.  For the uninitiated, you don't graduate with two diplomas.  All anyone will know when they graduate is that they are a "diploma candidate," and if they don't score high enough on the IB tests they'll find out the following October that they aren't ever getting an IB diploma. [/quote]

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