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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back to the original. discussion….

Offering more AP courses to everyone is a good thing.

Offering more rigorous AP courses earlier to kids who can do the work and handle the rigor is also a good thing.

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No. DCI is an IB school.  The move away from IB to more corporate charter mindset and AP classes is happening WITHOUT the knowledge and buy in of most staff and parents.  It's being done stealth, and it is not heading in a successful direction.[/quote]

Strongly disagree. It's a very good thing for an IB World School to offer AP classes and exams to help students build up a portfolio of strong standardized test scores before applying to college. The timing of IBD exams, in June of senior year, is a real problem in this country. In Europe, IBD students get conditional offers of admission to university predicated on their clearing an admissions bar once their standardized tests scores come out in the summer after their final year of secondary school.  Not so in the US although kids almost always need decent standardized test scores to crack top colleges.  The "predicted" IB scores teachers at IB schools dole out to students in the fall of senior year aren't necessarily going to convince colleges to admit kids. It's best to double up on AP exams in subjects where this is possible, mainly sciences and languages. [/quote]

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