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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on, IB is only as rigorous as the preparation of students in a particular IB program. Kids can scrape by in IB Diploma programs fed by IB Middle Years programs without great rigor, barely clearing the 24-point Diploma pass totals bar on a 24-45 point scale senior year in HS.  That's what happens at Banneker and Eastern.  I don't expect to see average pass point totals above the 20s at DCI for a decade.  In IBD programs, kids must pass 3 or 4 subject tests at the Standard Level (equivalent to AP), and 3 at the Higher Level (equivalent to AP if a student scrapes by, a year or two past AP if they score high).  I wouldn't say that IB studies are more rigorous than AP.  It all depends on how many APs a student is taking, and which ones  - BC Calculus and Physics C anyone? [/quote]

no one is comparing with AP except you.  As one of just 3 DCPS MS with accredited IB it's just an example of the false argument [b]EH makes no effort to provide rigor[/b].[/quote]

[b]Who argued that? Nobody.[/b]

EH admins and teachers surely make heroic efforts to provide their students with great rigor. Problem is, their PARCC proficiency pass rates are in the teens because their students are, a) poor, and, b) poorly taught in EH's feeders.  JA's situation is similar.  Eventually, EH and JA will be packed with gentrifiers' children, including the grandchildren of some of the current crop.  [/quote]

Gimme a break.  90% of the arguments on DCPS middle school consist of little more than griping over insufficient MS rigor aside from Deal (and sometimes including Deal). UMC families griping that public MS options are somehow beneath them
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