Reply to International Baccalaureate at Eastern?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "International Baccalaureate at Eastern?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you freaking serious it was never a goal to get 400 incoming freshmen into the IB program per year.  If that was the case...then an application component would've been priority.  If you are truly knowledgeable about IB, then you would know the high-school component does not kick into gear until 11th grade.  So for someone to think that incoming freshmen are a lost cause due to IB offerings are just clueless.  You are aware that Eastern is a comprehensive high school and there's only two high school (Banneker Academic High School) that offer IB and both are predominantly AA populated.[/quote]

The only way you'd have more than a token number of IB diploma candidates at a school like Eastern would be to have strong PYP and MYP programs at the ES and MS level, and then make sure students were taking the right pre-IB courses in 9th and 10th grade.

In essence, this program is fairly insigniciant at a school like Eastern.  It just becomes away to suggest the school is better because it's an "IB world school," but only a handful of students will get IB diplomas.  For the uninitiated, you don't graduate with two diplomas.  All anyone will know when they graduate is that they are a "diploma candidate," and if they don't score high enough on the IB tests they'll find out the following October that they aren't ever getting an IB diploma. [/quote]

NP and you are completely wrong PP.  The fact that a student who's attended non-IB schools and most likely challenged schools up to the point that they get to Eastern and that they now have a chance to build on the successes they've already achieved (likely against great odds) and have a shot at an IB diploma is IN AND OF ITSELF significant.

You apparently don't understand the idea of planting seeds of positive educational models and figuring out as you get more and more students into the program what it takes to support the students you're attracting to be successful.  No, not every student who tries for an IB diploma will get one.  But guess what?  If there is no IB track or option, every year 0% will get an IB diploma.

Some people here have their heads so firmly stuck in privilege and concepts about who is deserving of these opportunities that they can't see the benefit of starting where you are and building from there.  Of course ideally you have PYP and MYP leading up to high school.  And that should definitely be a goal within DCPS.  But we'll find out this year if it's possible to succeed in DCPS and get an IB diploma without that, and hopefully DCPS will keep investing in Eastern and the feeder schools (ALL OF THEM) to build this as a viable option for more and more students.[/quote]

Nonsense.  Eastern needs to serve the students it has, not waste money paying money to the IBO for a program that benefits just a few students and doesn't even result in a particularly meaningful credential.  The IB model is a joke.  There are better ways to challenge more students at a lower cost than essentially paying branding rights to the IBO.  [/quote]

You have the attention of several of us: please detail what specific ways students will be better challenged at a lower cost.  And also please say what Eastern payed to the IBO, since you apparently know this and are making a judgement about better use of funds.  Be specific about what lower cost other "ways" would be better, or we'll know you're just blowing smoke out of your... body.[/quote]

Looks like we're finally laying to rest several fallacies spouted in this thread.  Let's add to what we're dismissing the PP above who said "There are better ways to challenge more students at a lower cost than essentially paying branding rights to the IBO".  [b]That poster never ponied up with specifics,[/b] and I'm sure no one was holding their breath.[/quote]

The specific response was "AP classes" which are much less expensive and just as rigorous. [/quote]

AP is not as rigorous as IB. [b] AP exams were practice for the IB exams and we took them as juniors and sophomores[/b]. [/quote]

Are students at Eastern taking AP exams as juniors and sophomores to practice for their IB exams? [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics