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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought students only started IB courses in 11th grade? But yes, language is a big part of IB. [/quote]

You have to have 5 years of a language to earn the IB diploma and it has to be the same language. This is something that any Counselor at a school sending kids to an IB school should be telling parents. Any Counselor at an IB HS should be making sure that kids and parents are wll aware of this.

It sounds like OP’s kid had 2 years of a language in MS and got a B in the third year of the language at HS. The student was more worried about the letter grade and switched languages as a Sophomore. Now they can only get 3 years in the same language which makes them ineligible for the IB Diploma. Mom says she was not paying close enough attention due to issues at the time and has just realized this. The Counselor should have been that conversation with the student when it happened. We don’t know if the student was told that and ignored it or if the student wasn’t told that. Either way, the language requirement is something that sinks a decent number of kids for the IB Diploma.

I know parents whose kids are going to an SLHS from Carson who have not been told about the IB requirement and are upset when they learn about it as Freshmen or Sophomores. The Carson literature on language that I saw for rising 7th graders mentioned the IB requirement on the backside of the language info sheet that was given out. It was one line and not highlighted. The video that was released for rising 7th graders encouraged kids to not take a foreign language in 7th grade, because it was a high school class, and strongly suggested that waiting until 9th grade was a good idea for most students. It did not mention that kids going to SLHS need to start the language in 8th grade if they think they want to earn the IB Diploma. I would bet that the language requirement and the crap Counseling from Carson is a part of the reason why IB Diploma numbers at SLHS are low. [/quote]

+1 this is one reason we don’t rely on counselors for anything [/quote]

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