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Oct. 5th, 2006 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commotiocordisWe're going to discuss the IB Diploma program here for a minute.
I know nothing about it. Yet I still know more than 95% of the students in my school signed up for it.
The school has told us nothing. Everything I know, I know from looking stuff up myself. I've never been presented with a definitive list of requirements, the coordinator has never mentioned internal assessments (though they've been touched on in some of the actual classes) or CAS hours or the extended essay to us. I wasn't told until last year that I could only take 2 SL tests this year, and then only because I specifically asked because of my messed-up schedule (though I don't think I would have changed my schedule, it would have been nice to know that I'd have to have screwy stuff going on regarding when I can take the tests), and most people weren't told that they had to take at least one test until a month into this year, way too late for people who weren't in a class for which they could take a test this year to switch into one in which they could.
Okay, and now I'm really jealous. Twas reading some posts on ibscrewed.net, and found out that there is an IB psychology course. I loved AP psychology and would kill to be able to have one of my HLs be psych, but evidently my school doesn't offer it. As I'd not even heard that it was a course possibility until just now. (Which goes right along with the theme of my coordinator's failure at life.)
And what was with the conflicting adverts for the House episode? "All new!" "Up next, scenes from tonight's House!" And then they showed scenes from "Who's Your Daddy?". I was like, okay. . . ?
I know nothing about it. Yet I still know more than 95% of the students in my school signed up for it.
The school has told us nothing. Everything I know, I know from looking stuff up myself. I've never been presented with a definitive list of requirements, the coordinator has never mentioned internal assessments (though they've been touched on in some of the actual classes) or CAS hours or the extended essay to us. I wasn't told until last year that I could only take 2 SL tests this year, and then only because I specifically asked because of my messed-up schedule (though I don't think I would have changed my schedule, it would have been nice to know that I'd have to have screwy stuff going on regarding when I can take the tests), and most people weren't told that they had to take at least one test until a month into this year, way too late for people who weren't in a class for which they could take a test this year to switch into one in which they could.
Okay, and now I'm really jealous. Twas reading some posts on ibscrewed.net, and found out that there is an IB psychology course. I loved AP psychology and would kill to be able to have one of my HLs be psych, but evidently my school doesn't offer it. As I'd not even heard that it was a course possibility until just now. (Which goes right along with the theme of my coordinator's failure at life.)
And what was with the conflicting adverts for the House episode? "All new!" "Up next, scenes from tonight's House!" And then they showed scenes from "Who's Your Daddy?". I was like, okay. . . ?
