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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have read up about it extensively.  I think it’s a great diploma for top students.

My high school offered AP classes of which I took many, got college credit, and got a full 4 year academic scholarship for college.

I would take the IB diploma over just taking AP courses any day.  It’s going to take time but if DCI can successfully implement a good IB curriculum from middle to high school, that is a major accomplishment to offer students in DC.[/quote]

If you didn't earn the IB Diploma, or your children haven't, you don't know all that much. IBD is a GT program through and through.

Tough to implement in a school system without formal GT offerings and much academic tracking before HS unless parents supplement extensively and consistently through the years, particularly on the language immersion and writing fronts.[/quote]

I’m the PP poster and I was in G & T and having read it do understand, and why unlike some people here, realize it’s for the top students as my comment above.

It won’t be possible to implement school wide a rigorous program when you can’t travk and have to take all students but at least DCI can start in middle school to build it and build some rigor classes to then have HL IB classes.  Also yes, you must not only be proficient but strong in your foreign language and have strong writing skills.  That is why I said above that I like the IB diploma much better than just taking AP classes here and there.

I would bet that there are kids out there who can get the diploma where school is easy and parents supplement extensively.  [/quote]

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