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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is an RMIB alum. IB should only be offered to very bright kids with a lot of support.

IB in a academically lagging school is absolutely terrible idea and a sure way to torpedo the future of struggling students. [/quote]

Robinson isn't an academically lagging school, despite the handwringing on this thread.  That said, the IB diploma is still a niche diploma, the majority of students are not aiming for it.  [/quote]

Which is why this makes no sense. A student can take one AP class and get college credit for that class. IB on the other hand is a multi year slog that most students don't want. [/quote]

New poster. You seem not to understand how IB works. Students can take IB classes "a la carte" just as they do with AP classes, and some colleges give credit for those classes just as with an AP class.

Yes, the IB Diploma is a two-year (not "multi-year") commitment. But students can and do take single IB courses, can take the exam at the end of those courses, and can possibly get college credit for them. Just like with AP. Before you leap to say, "But more colleges take AP credits," so what? More take IB than you realize, if you've only been exposed to AP at your child's school.

By the way, the belief on DCUM that AP credits in HS magically transform into skipping college classes is just wrong. Sure, students can get certain credits. But it's not any kind of automatic or required one-credit-for-one-HS-class thing. Some colleges give credit yet still require the student to take a course on the basis that the college wants students to have the course taught in the way the coillege prefers. This is what happend with a very strong STEM student I know who took gobs of APs but still had to take several freshman courses she was  absolutely convinced she would get to skip. The university said it required students to take certain foundational STEM classes, AP credit or not, so everyone was on the same playing field. [/quote]

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