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[quote=Anonymous]The irony is that the same folks who'd be concerned about a "Race to Nowhere" if a student were taking 10 AP courses gladly sign their kids up for IB diploma programs. Marketing it as teaching students "how to think" and creating "global citizens" plays well with certain parents, and the IBO (which has its North American headquarters in the former Fannie Mae building in DC) milks that for all it's worth. We pulled our kid from an IB school after seeing how the school tended to separate kids into IB diploma and non-IB diploma buckets. We found our AP school to be a more welcoming environment; most of the kids took a number of AP courses, and kids weren't so quickly put in buckets by school administrators looking to tout the number of the school's IB diploma candidates. [/quote]
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