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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP, we are a science and math family and it fits us better. [/quote]

I’m a teacher and science and math seem stronger in AP vs. IB[/quote]

IB science is strong.  Issue is that our district required students choose a 2 year track...either bio or physics.  They get a deeper, comprehensive look at one and ate lacking in the other IMO.  Solution we came up with was to have the bio focused kids take a physics course in college, and the physics kid take some bio in college.

IMO both are important and a well educated person should have some basic knowledge of both disciplines.[/quote]

It’s not just your school — the way the two-year IB courses fit together with the standard American curriculum, many kids come out without one of the three big sciences. I am leaning toward requiring my kid to take an intensive summer program in their third science, if they choose IB. I guess I’m just too provincially American to think you can be a well-educated person without at least taking introductory (high school level) courses in biology, chemistry, AND physics, and I find it kind of discrediting that IB seems to think otherwise. Not discrediting enough to forbid it, if it’s my kid’s choice, but it still concerns me. Why doesn’t IB think a complete science education is foundational?[/quote]

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