Teacher problems

[Wildt4lon]

(03-20-2013 10:23 AM)laYahooz Wrote:  Gfich, here's what IB is:

IB is an international program for “smart kids"

I'm in IB and to be honest, the only reason you hear its so “rigorous" and “challenging" is because of the kids in the program. Their drama-queens. They bitch about every assignment and how IB is “so hard." “Boooohoo I have to write 2 IAs (i dumb term for a research essay) next year," “i got sooooo much math tonight!!!!", you get the point. AP kids do practically the same stuff. Really, similar to most students, IB kids just don't do shit. There dum dumps who don't study, cheat on quizzes, have their parents help with everything. Just your typical “smart" kid at any school.

Not saying IB is bad, as I love how it gives 3 years of calculus based math, but it's overrated. Actually it's not overrated. Kids overrate it because they don't do homework but colleges know that a lot of it is BS.

Would I join the IB program now? I guess so because I like the combination of AP and IB.
Does IB help at all with your future? No.
Is IB hard? No.

Hope that clears the truth about IB up for you all

Some of the stuff you said there isn't true.
1) we don't cheat. Well, most of us.
2) we are not dumb
At least, that's people from my skl
3) very few of us are able to get our parents to hold a pen near a piece of hw

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(03-20-2013 12:30 PM)laYahooz Wrote:  

(03-20-2013 11:30 AM)TheGoldenGriffin Wrote:  By specialized i mean if they actually teach instead of skimming over subjects. Schools don't always tell the truth to prevent getting too in-depth and confusing you. I remember when they told us "you can't take away 5 from 3" and they denied that negative numbers existed when i asked them about it. I don't always believe what teachers say now. They said atoms were the smallest things in the universe but by then i knew what gluons were. They said viruses were the smallest pathogens but i already knew what prions were. They said there are 3 states of matter when there are at least 6. They said water freezes at 0°C without telling us about superfluid water and how pressure affects boiling points. They said matter can't be created nor destroyed but if it were true, that means antimatter can't destroy matter. Every year, i think it will get more specific but they just skim over more stuff. Thats why i feel like if you gave me your science test i would pass even though i never took chemistry or physics because it probably isn't that specific or i would fail because the teacher thinks that neutrons give mass to atoms.

You wouldn't pass physics because you need calc bc or higher (I'm guessing your not that age yet)

I would say IB teachers are pretty good for the most part. The math teachers at my school definitely teach everything, even if its not on the IB test.
I'm not much of a history guy but even I'm aware that IB history courses are way better (I've taken AP and IB history). You don't have a text book in IB so you read real world stuff that is actually interesting (kind of).
I'm not sure how old you are but once you get into higher classes you get into more depth things.


Btw matter can't be created or destroyed. What you isn't really correct but is besides the point even it was. Anti matter only applies to relativity, quantum physics, and definitely describes electrons interactions. All those fields are way to complex for us to even argue it so don't try

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Also when you said there are more than 3 states of matter that is not the point of teaching them silly they just teach the common ones. And to be honest, as Ive read a lot about this, no one knows how many there are. I don't think it's 6, from my research. I've concluded 5 that are legit.

Solid, liquid, gas, dark matter, and plasma.

What's the 6th one you think as I bet it's not proven but I want to look it up!

History and Physics are the hardest subjects in the IB
The sixth matter is colder than solids, I think it's something to do with Einstein / has his name in it. Not sure though.