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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The idea that IB is only valuable if you get the diploma is so silly. Is AP only valuable if you take 8 AP courses?[/quote]

The entire point of IB os the diploma.[/quote]

No it’s not.  Are you at an IB school?  The entire point of an IB curriculum is multipart and it is all aimed at building up all parts of a student. It’s part global citizen, part classical education, part rigorous curriculum, part critical thinking, part being an engaged and reflective member of your community, and part communication both written and oral.  Students benefit from this if they take 1 IB class or all IB classes.  At all the IB schools, students take the classes at high rates even if they don’t work towards the IB diploma.  They are still benefiting from the program.

Are there some shortcomings with IB, yes.  Particularly around math, it needs to go deeper into college mathematics.  But it’s a great program and sets students up for success in college.

All the AP advocates overlook the shortcomings with AP and there are many.  The teaching to the test, the lack of depth, the  poor development of critical thinking.  Then there is the empirical data that a large number of students either don’t take the exam or score 3 or lower.  If you are judging IB based on the number achieving the diploma, AP should be judged just as harshly for the students who don’t pass the College Board evaluation.  [/quote]

The IB math and science classes, even the HL ones, are not rigorous enough. They just are not. It does not work for kids who are STEM interested.

AP classes teaching writing and communication, they approach it differently but they teach it.

There are too many kids signing up for AP classes because FCPS wants every kid to take AP/IB classes and tests, regardless if it is a good fit. The difference is that they are equating IB SL classes with IB HL classes and AP classes. In reality, IB SL classes are honors level classes. I would love to see the percent of kids who take IB SL and IB HL, I would guess that the number of IB HL is very small. [/quote]

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