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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hard to understand why Banneker bothers with IB Diploma. Sheesh.[/quote]

As long as enough kids want to do it, why would they shut it down? The top IB kids have great college outcomes (and for middle class and poorer kids that often means a full ride, too). Plus many people believe the IB curriculum is inherently valuable. And if you don’t feel that way, just do the AP track. [/quote]

But if it is only 20 kids per class doing IB, how many are the top kids? Maybe 5 or 6. So if you mean there are 5 or 6 kids each year who do very well on the IB track and have excellent college outcomes , that’s good but wouldn’t it make more sense to just make it an AP school and offer more AP classes so overall more kids benefit and have excellent college outcomes. In other words, is a tiny IB program the best way to allocate scarce resources in a public school system? Perhaps the answer is yes but it is a question worth asking and knowing DCPS, it is unlikely they reflect on optimization[/quote]

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