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IB vs AP aside, I think the focus on STEM at the expense of humanities in the US is troubling.  [/quote]

Honestly, when I went through FCPS, the focus was way more on the humanities than on STEM, which I think was awful. Your standard diploma required 4 years of social studies and English, but only 3 of Math and Science. My FCPS high school had something like 5 levels each (at least) of band, chorus, and strings, multiple types of art classes, multiple types of drama, a bunch of other humanities electives, 4 levels of *fashion marketing*, but there was little to nothing for the STEM realm. Even the AP science classes they in theory "offered" didn't always run.

We live in a world today where people don't understand the scientific method or statistics, anti-vaxxers are running amok, nobody has a solid grounding in formal logic... I'm not saying that the humanities aren't valuable, they are, but the focus on STEM is a pendulum swing to correct for the fact that we've been neglecting STEM in our educational system for awhile. [/quote]

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