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International baccalaureate. It's basically a way to get some college credit at a shitty high school by stressing students out way too much, and also they get a special, worthless diploma that's too ugly to hang on a wall, if they test high enough at the end.
Meanwhile the whole time your parents think there is something wrong with you so they spend four years screaming and cussing at you about why can't you fucking do simple fucking high school work when it's all actually well above what college expects.
I feel that IB is obsolete because nowadays high achieving students often get an associates degree from the local community college before graduating high school and that's a much healthier thing to do in terms of their psychosocial development. When I graduated in 2002 only one of my 192 classmates had their associates degree, now some private schools have their whole graduating class get their associates before high school graduation.
Basically the whole point of the graduation at that point is to hold it over the poor kid's head that if they make the slightest mistake in their last two years of high school they won't "walk," as if anyone cares about the graduation ceremony or even remembers it, unless you're Chris chan or something.
I ended up skipping almost a year's worth of college classes but back then if you did well in high school the state lottery would fund your whole college education so I would rather have been allowed to enjoy my teenage years instead of worrying that me or my parents might have had to spend an extra thousand bucks or two as if that were the end of the world.
