| At my daughter's school, the school believes that its IB curriculum is its most rigorous curriculum - even though it has no history since this is its first IB graduating class. My daughter originally signed up for the full-fledged IB diploma, found it not to be challenging and focused in areas she was not interested in. She dropped out and is taking a mixture of AP and IB classes. She is among 4 National Merit Finalists at her school (3 of whom opted not to take IB). Yet the school still presents IB as its most rigorous curriculum. As April 1 rolls around, it will be interesting to see if she will be hurt by the fact that she dropped out of IB. |