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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do they think there are no assessments in AP classes?  [/quote]

Yes.

No assessments, no writing, no critical thinking, only a narrow viewpoint.

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The anti AP/pro IB posts are kinda funny
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So are the pro AP/anti-IB.  Every time an IB parent posts something positive about the program-it’s you are a fake/you were part of the IBO org or you are ignorant and don’t know any better.  I feel like the pro-AP parents are a lot more antagonistic than the other way around in this forum.  It’s weird bc in other places, there isn’t such a strong anti-IB sentiment. And re-read some of responses; just because parents are saying IB is/was a good program for their kids, they are not saying AP is bad.  [/quote]

That’s the same vibe I see here.

The anti-IB crowd seems angry and resentful, calling to cut a program that has been great for many.

I don’t actually see an anti-AP crowd here at all. Pro-IB posters have simply argued for the program. [/quote]

But IB has not been great for "many". Just a small percentage that are holding schools hostage. Or the parents who are using the existence of two different curriculums to flee poorer schools.[/quote]

Well, it has been great for many. I posted above (the IB teacher for 15 years).

If you are stuck on the diploma as your only measure of achievement, then perhaps you don’t see that. But some of us see the value of the individual courses and have personally witnessed hundreds of students succeed.

You have an ax to grind. Fine. But your perception doesn’t erase my reality. [/quote]

The reality is how many students transfer to other schools because of IB. The reality IS the low number of IB diplomas when AP, less expensive, could do the a la carte job better. The reality is that you are in denial.[/quote]

I don’t agree AP does the a la carte job better, and I say that with very long-term, direct experience with both courses.

But I’m not campaigning to take away something from you. You, however, are clearly campaigning to take away a program that has benefited many.

And since the only metric you care about (the diploma) means you are blind to the many other benefits of the program, then I suspect we are done here.

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I have experience with both an IB and an AP high school in FCPS and the overall academic atmosphere at the AP high school was far superior.

I would not be averse to having a single IB high school where every student commits to doing the full IB diploma program, and is treated with respect by the staff and held to high expectations. That is how some IB schools operate, but it’s not the current model in FCPS.

If that’s not feasible, yet FCPS still plans to redistrict, it should replace IB with AP.  That would cost less and align with the “equitable access to programming” goal. [/quote]
May ask which school was the AP one and which one was IB?[/quote]

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