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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach HL IB English at an International School; I also teach AP English.  AP English is significantly more intense, difficult, and content-dense.  In the International School world in Europe, students and parents believe (no matter how I explain otherwise) that IB is "better" and "harder", and this is disastrous for the students who take AP English believing it is easier.  Plus, students who love literature really miss out by taking IB English rather than AP.

The Math teachers at our school who teach both IB and AP also agree that AP is more rigorous.

IB is the Emperor's new clothes of education, and the philosophical component sounds great, but is largely worthless and is executed at the expense of subject matter content, in my opinion.  My own son did the AP Diploma; I strongly discouraged him from doing IB.  I am a bit sad to see some very intelligent kids who love literature in my HL IB classes this year, as opposed to my AP class, because I know they would get so much more out of AP.

IB was developed for the International School world and that is where I am teaching; I don't even see how it is fully implemented/applicable to schools in America.  And yet, even in overseas International Schools, I think AP is vastly superior.  
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Thank you for sharing your perspective (assuming this was not just a cut-and-paste  of the teacher's comment from another website).  This is very consistent with what we see and public schools in Northern Virginia, where IB is of primary interest to white parents who like it because it is has "international" in the title. Meanwhile, the Asian parents who pay the most attention to the education of their children gravitate towards the AP schools.[/quote]

I'm Asian-American and plan to send my children to an IB high school. My old roommate at Harvard attended an IB school. Her high school experience sounded amazing compared to my affluent New England college prep school.[/quote]

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