Montgomery Blair Magnet

CountingDown
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:42:07 +0000

aquamarinesea, I’ve read that book and was horrified. That mindset is not unusual in this area, for better or worse.

Actually, my IB kid is NOT the driven sort, though he was in class with many of them. (Poor guy. He is a type B in a house full of driven type As. OTOH, he has a wonderful sense of balance and humor.) He was not willing to sacrifice the rest of his life for better grades. We were also dealing with some significant LD issues that affected grades and how much time it took him to complete work. Time management and organization were huge for him.

As I mentioned above, he took a fair number of APs along with the same IBs to make sure he would get credit/placement (i.e, both Econs, Spanish, Bio and Euro) because he was not confident he’d get 6s and 7s on the IB exams to get credit. I can assure you he did NOT study for AP exams, though!