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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My students who come back to visit me their freshman year of college largely report that college is much easier than their high school experience, so I think they're well prepared.

I also think the experience (especially in elementary) is very non-standardized. My own child has been writing 5 paragraph essays since 3rd grade, so the anecdote about being overwhelmed by an essay is odd to me.[/quote]

My now 9th and 11th graders, who were in AAP, barely wrote anything through middle school and I have been surprised at how little they write in HS. [/quote]

Send them to an IB high school, they will be writing constantly.[/quote]

The writing instruction is the best part of IB. My DD drafted essays regularly when she was in IB English. She went off to college very confident about her writing abilities. [/quote]

And, my AP kid who majored in English Lit in college also did great.  Lots of writing in her AP English classes.  \She also wrote in AP History and AP foreign language.  Not so much in BC Calculus or AP Physics.  Lots of writing in AP Comparative Government, too.

IB proponents seem to think that AP students don't write.
I don't question that IB has a lot of writing, but AP Composition and AP Lit also requires a lot.  [/quote]

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