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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"the principal has mixed world language classes. IB Spanish 5 students are now in the same class as AP Spanish students and regular 5 students, although they have different rosters based on the course. Students taking different courses also take different assessments, even while in the same class. The summer homework quiz was different for IB and regular students, even in the same class. Everyone in the class is expected to prepare for both IB and AP Spanish exams, although some have no intention of taking the other. The same goes for French.

Current IB sophomores are also now in Honors Algebra 2, instead of IB AAF. AAF is almost essential to success in IB Precalculus; many freshmen in IB Precalculus struggle because they have not gotten the added support from taking AAF.

IB students are very upset with these changes. If this keeps going farther and all classes become integrated, many will choose to return to their home schools. After all, there's no point in taking hour long bus rides and having hours upon hours of homework if they're getting the same education that they would get at a school that's fifteen minutes away. "

I saw this in an older post about RMIB.  Is this still true?[/quote]

NP. I don't know how old this older post was, but I too would love to hear some feedback from recent RMIB parents.[/quote]
The math piece sounds like a personal gripe from about 3 years ago when there were a handful of kids (8? 10?) who had not taken geometry in middle school, so they had a completely different math pathway leading to a specific IB course for their diploma. The current bulk of kids who take geometry in middle school take AAF in 9th and IB Precalc in 10th. However, you really should go to the meeting to find out the pathways for the entering 9th graders, because IBO just completed their 5 yr curriculum update for math, and I don't know if any of those changes affect the pathways.

The upper level language classes are all combined, but at least 2/3 are IB. The content for level 5, 6, 7 in IB/AP/Regular is the same, but the writing demands are different. My kid doesn't see any issue with the combined sections.[/quote]

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