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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 a program FCPS has in place to allow students with engaged parents to escape unwanted, usually lower performing, IB schools and transfer into a neighboring,  high performing AP high school without moving.

FCPS put IB into almost exclusively the lower performing high schools.  The IB results are abysmal at everwhere but Robinson.  Some of the schools have fewer than 10 IB diplomas.  Hundreds of high performing students transfer out of the IB schools to AP schools each year, which creates a vicious curcle because it lowers the test scores of those schools, which causes more families to use IB to transfer to desired AP schools.  IB costs millions to run, in spite of having terrible results in FCPS (except for Robinson) and causing soooo many IB students to pupil place to AP schools.

FCPS refuses to get rid of IB in spite of it being such a failure in FCPS.  FCPS likes the IB buzz words and marketing, and the fact that it is European.[/quote]

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