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15:36 I agree with you. We should keep IB, but just lesson the number of high schools offering it. And then help make it a more desirable program in those smaller number of schools. 
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Why should we keep it?

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High SES kids don't need IB b/c their parents can "buy" their way to college (i.e., test looPprep, tutors,..etc.). Their future is theirs to lose.  Lower SES kids who do not and can't afford same luxury have to work extra hard to create the same opportunity as the high SES kids. It is uneven playing field. For those kids, IB gives that extra push, that extra help they need. It may not reach every single kid but if it helps even small fraction of these kids, I'd say it's well worth it. Yes, I know you pay tax. I pay tax too. But if we stop educating our kids because they don't meet your definition of "acceptable", what would our future be?  [/quote]

You are completely off base on this. In schools with a large number of low SES kids, it's the high SES kids who benefit from IB because it creates "a school within a school" so they can avoid mixing with the low SES kids.  My neighborhood feeds into one of those IB schools and I've heard this many times over.  [/quote]

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