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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP here. One of my kids just graduated in 24 with the IB diploma from Robinson. Having read this entire discussion, I can only believe that most of you in favor of IB know very little about IB. The program is rigorous and comprehensive.

Look, I was an AP student in school years and years ago. I don't claim it is the same program now, but I think both AP and IB get kids to the same destination, but with different paths, and possibly differing strengths.  I can't figure out why anyone is so afraid of being rezoned to an IB school. The program is incredible. Even if you don't think your kid is a "writer" they can be successful. I would encourage you to take the time to learn and understand it before screaming no to the school board. The hysteria is completely unwarranted. A kid that will be successful in AP will very likely be successful in IB.

- Signed, bought in the Robinson pyramid before I had kids and had even heard of IB, and I don't regret it one bit. [/quote]

(Oops - I meant those of you in favor of AP know very little about IB.  I know I didn't!)[/quote]

Freudian slip.

Keep your IB. We moved to avoid it for our younger kids. We will move again if dumped into any IB school. [/quote]

Don’t need to love, just transfer to AP school which is why the boundary changes cannot be to “dump good kids into bad schools” bc if go to IB school and don’t want IB, can transfer out.[/quote]

That implies the inconvenience of adding to the commute time at the expense of sleep hours.

Why not just take the input and choose whatever the students and parents prefer? Given the choice, the vast majority would prefer AP. The issue is a the administration thinks they know better. Keep one or two magnet IB high schools if the enrollment is there, which I doubt.

The argument in the thread is that it doesn’t matter, IB vs AP is the same they’ll all learn something (the same thing?) in the end. First this is not true, the inflexibility of IB make it a bad choice for most students. Second let families decide on their own. And third all things being equal IB is more expensive so why not go with the most cost effective option and offer AP uniformly throughout the district.

There’s no reason to keep IB unless you talk to some delusional parents that think an IB diploma with drastically increase their kid’s chances to an ivy school.[/quote]

Wish school board would listen to you and #s do not support keeping any IB schools. The only reason they do is they try to have every kid take 1 IB class- could be IB art or music so can say big % of school participates but reality is like Lewis where hardly any do full diploma work- recently was a only 4 that did. I’d buy the argument that if IB so good, why wasn’t TJ set up for it. [b]And IB is miserable for any kids with accelerated math.[/b][/quote]

Which is why IB only magnets won’t work, unless it’s a very specific kind of magnet like humanities, but even then you still need to do the six courses for diploma and can’t specialize too much. IB is so rigid and prescriptive that it doesn’t work well for students that want to specialize.

IB is a program designed in the 70’s, education changed a lot in the past half century.[/quote]

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