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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really feel like everyone who hates IB here has no experience of it.  DC is a science focused learner and has loved the IB program.  My child was writing averse, but IB has taught them how to think critically and write at a much higher and deeper level.  It’s an excellent program.  I have three friends who are deans at various colleges and many friends who are professors and all have said that they prefer IB students over AP.  They say IB students are better prepared for college, write and think critically, and are generally more successful at their universities.

I don’t understand the IB hate.  AP is riddled with flaws too.  From being too prescriptive and not allowing any Socratic discourse, teachers teaching exclusively to the test and not utilizing any extensions, the breath of the material tested so wide that students are taught to memorize instead of critically think, and perhaps the most important, universities aren’t offering college credit for successful completion of these classes anymore.  Not to mention the ridiculousness of the College Board money grab by making HSs offer HS level classes as AP (AP Pre-calculus, AP Computer Science Fundamentals, among others.). [/quote]

Well, we moved to get away from an IB high school after seeing how prescriptive and divisive it was, so the premise of your post is false. AP is more flexible and you don’t have to put up with all the marketing crap about how IB is a “school within a school,” teaches kids “how to think,” and creates “global citizens.”

It’s been said before, but it’s still true: if IB were the superior option you’d see the parents at the top schools in FCPS demanding it.  They aren’t, and in fact would vigorously resist any effort by FCPS to supplant AP with IB.  [/quote]

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