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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IB is lots of writing and projects.  It also has a lot of requirements so kids who like band, arts or other things cannot fit them in the schedule.  It doesn't seem worth it to me.[/quote]
No, a lot of IB students have extra curricular activities: art, band, sports.[/quote]

Our band director said if you do full IB diploma you cannot fit band in.[/quote]

My kid, and a good number of their fellow IB diploma candidates, are taking instrumental music at Einstein.  It definitely requires taking both health semesters over the summer.

My kid decided to take AP Computer Science Principles for the tech credit, which isn’t offered over the summer, so they did that sophomore year instead of music. If they’d done tech over the summer, they could have taken music all four years. [/quote]

If you plan well, you can, especially if you do PE freshman year and knock out other electives in MS but its very tight and if you want to do anything more, there is no flexibility with only one elective.  You can sometimes get your tech credit done in MS, and do PE freshman year, and take health ed over the summer (or two summers).  But, that's assuming your child doesn't want to take any other electives in band or anything else.

And, that's exactly the point, if you didn't plan it all well, you cannot take four years of music.[/quote]

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