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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"You have to look at how AP or IB is delivered in the individual school. A great deal of IB is based on pre-packaged content from the IBO that requires little individualized mentoring."

In IB the kids have to write, write, write.  This can't be "pre-packaged".  IB is completely focused on "individualized mentoring" and feedback on writing.  This is why it's so successful at getting students to think.  Or maybe you meant to write "AP"...[/quote]

They can write all they want.  It doesn't mean they know how to write, write anything of value, or receive much individual attention.

Just about all the best schools in NoVa are AP.  You can keep your silly IB "programme" and call your kids "global citizens" all you want.  They still attend sub-par schools that most people avoid if they have any better options.   [/quote]

Please stop demonstrating your failure of critical thinking. You are now putting down the IB kids without any evidence that they "write, write, write" nothing of value. Should we also say that the AP kids can take a bunch of multiple choice tests without actually demonstrating mastery of the material?

The IB program won't change those schools any more than putting AP there. It's not about IB vs AP. It is about SES. You can flip things around and put IB in Langley, Mclean, etc. - It won't make them any worse. The way FCPS implemented IB did a horrible disservice to both the IB program, and the lower performing schools where they implemented it. It gave a stigma to the whole program, and, through the "pupil placement" mechanism, allowed the "white flight" from the already challenged high schools. So I would agree that it should be implemented as a magnet, but I don't agree with trashing the program.

There are states like CA and FL where the IB program has much larger penetration. Their state schools offer significant scholarships and/or automatic admission to IB diploma candidates. They aren't stupid to do so, neither are the top schools who single out the IB diploma as a rigorous, well-established curriculum of study that evidences college readiness. You do you. [/quote]

I know how FCPS has installed IB in some high schools but not others.  I know IB from when I went to school in a smaller district where all HSes had both AP and IB.  I knew the handful of kids who got an IB Diploma and I knew the many more students who took 3, 6+ AP classes.  We all chose what we wanted.  Very few people chose IB.  That's not "stigma".  [/quote]

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