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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is one topic that parents/students don't realize as they begin to take HS level mathematics courses in middle school (and earlier).  Colleges want to see 4 years of mathematics taken in high school.  Unfortunately, families don't understand this as they begin accelerating in mathematics and it hurts many students in their future academic years.[/quote]

There are plenty of opportunities to spread out math at the end of high school if a kid get in over their head. 2 year calculus (AB and BC), and AP or honors Stats. 
Padding AI + AA at an IB school like OP.

It's only a problem if the kid somehow gets 2 years ahead of what they can handle and doesn't notice until senior year.

It appears that OP's kid is in a medium-performing school, and IB is enrichment not acceleration. The kid didn't run out of math; the kid just doesn't like math and is trying to avoid it.

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We are pupil placing out of IB for this very reason, well a bit different. My kid loves math and we want better math options for him which are not available at IB schools.[/quote]

I've been hearing this term "pupil placing". What is that and how can it be used for someone who is not taking IB Math? [/quote]

Pupil placing is when you ask for your child to attend a different school. In high school, kids will pupil place from IB schools to AP school or AP schools to IB schools or sometimes for a specific foreign language. If you do pupil place for a program you are required to participated in those classes. So if you pupil place for a language you have to take that language each year at the school. AP/IB students have to take a certain number of AP/IB classes. You have to renew your placement each year. [/quote]

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