Can a freshman take individual IB classes?

PVmusicmom
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:39:55 +0000

CountingDown — Your have shared a lot about IB info. I appreciate very much.

Having said that, I have felt so uncomfortably about , Olymom’s posts here. The problem to her has been that, with only given info of “12 year old girl in Calculus”, she automatically has imagined (so negatively) as following— “this girl does math all day everyday, upon parents’ PUSH, to make parents “PROUD” of her, that’s why she is in Calculus that early. This girl should have a life. Math/science is not only in her life. She should think about Arts, instead of thinking about science in HS although it’s “REQUIRED”. She should stay away from any thinking on math/science.” It’s TOO simple imagination in negative direction.

Well, she is a natural learner in math/science. BUT it does not meanthat math/science is her strengths only. In fact. She enjoys almost everything in school. She enjoys ( and accelerate) in every subjects in school. She is one of the most “rounded” kids in school. As she is too well-rounded, she has been saying “I want be a —artist, pianist, violinist, singer, writer, tennis player…”, you name it. As parent, I have had a lot laugh when she has too many in the list. When she has tone of many interests, her advancing in math has to come naturally, by not spending more time than your kids. In fact she spends less time than your kids in math because she would spends “minimum” in homework. No reason to be accused by strangers this way. Well, always, you have no reason to be too negative about others, specially when you do not know someone.