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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really feel like everyone who hates IB here has no experience of it.  DC is a science focused learner and has loved the IB program.  My child was writing averse, but IB has taught them how to think critically and write at a much higher and deeper level.  It’s an excellent program.  I have three friends who are deans at various colleges and many friends who are professors and all have said that they prefer IB students over AP.  They say IB students are better prepared for college, write and think critically, and are generally more successful at their universities.

I don’t understand the IB hate.  AP is riddled with flaws too.  From being too prescriptive and not allowing any Socratic discourse, teachers teaching exclusively to the test and not utilizing any extensions, the breath of the material tested so wide that students are taught to memorize instead of critically think, and perhaps the most important, universities aren’t offering college credit for successful completion of these classes anymore.  Not to mention the ridiculousness of the College Board money grab by making HSs offer HS level classes as AP (AP Pre-calculus, AP Computer Science Fundamentals, among others.). [/quote]

You accuse people of not understanding IB, but your description of AP courses is just as ignorant. - AP teacher[/quote]

The IBO’s North American headquarters are in the DC area. They monitor DCUM threads and post a lot of pro-IB propaganda, which then gets repeated by defensive parents zoned for IB schools. [/quote]
Ok tin foil hat lady.  I have a kid in IB, I think it’s a good program.  I have nothing against AP.  I think both programs have their pros and cons.  If could pick I would do IB for one kid, AP for my other kid. But you really can’t fathom that someone might disagree with you? And therefore anyone who does, is either an IBO employee or a“defensive parent?”  And if they are monitoring DCUM to post “pro IB propaganda,”  they do a piss poor job of it bc DCUM (FCPS esp) hates it. [/quote]

Keep your hands off our kids to shore up your failing IB programs and low-performing schools and we’re good.  Most of us do not want that pretentious “programme” inflicted on our kids or schools. [/quote]
It’s interesting. I’ve noticed that the same people who were throwing a fit about schools closing, then kids wearing masks, then DEI/trans issues books, and now boundary stuff (and by default freaking about their kids going to an IB school)…all use the same victim-mentality language.  “Inflicted on our kids or schools.”   The evil, woke school board.  Our poor children.  How dare FCPS do XYZ?  I’m not saying it’s all the same people, but if I were to draw a Venn diagram of all of the aforementioned groups, would it be a circle?[/quote]

DP. No. A lot of parents have very strong feelings about AP vs IB. This was going on long before Covid, as evidenced by the last boundary change when kids were moved from an AP school to an IB school and parents at another school successfully lobbied against changing it to IB. Regardless of AP/IB, most people are not in favor of being redistricted in the first place and are especially against it if it would impact their own kids in their sophomore or junior years.[/quote]

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